Microsoft beams out Vista SP1 to beta testers

[froggyboy604]

Posted Sep 24th 2007 5:29PM by Darren Murph
Filed under: Desktops, Laptops

Right on cue, Microsoft has made available the (long-awaited) Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista to a private group of beta testers. One lucky user actually goes on to describe the update and note a number of positive changes, some of which include a much snappier logon experience, a new option in the Disk Defragmenter "allowing you to choose which volumes you would like to defragment," improvements in responsiveness when resuming from Hibernation / Sleep modes, and interestingly enough, slightly improved battery life on a tested laptop. Furthermore, "select members of the community" are also getting to give five new "reliability packages" a whirl, which are all slated to be available to the public before SP1 is released en masse. Be sure and hit the read link for the full rundown.

S: http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/24/micr ... a-testers/

The disk defragment volume picker is my favourite update and snappier logon. Don't really care about sleep mode cuz i almost never use it.

[SetoTK]

Whats a sleep or hibertnate mode?

All vista needs to do is stop the asking "do you want to permit this app" every time you execute anything

[froggyboy604]

^same that pop-up is really annoying and unnecessary since most people just click continue or allow anyways.