 | By Mark Edwards Microsoft says that Vista Service Pack 1 will improvement system performance, and many of you probably think. “It’s about time!” This week, I give you a rundown of several improvements you can expect after you load Vista SP1, and a link where you can learn even more. |
You can get a glimpse of Vista SP1 now
Microsoft is busy working on Windows Vista Service Pack 1, which the company says will improve Vista significantly. To be sure, some of the improvements in SP1 have been available for some time as individual hotfixes, so you might already have a few of them on your Vista system. But installing SP1 is an easy way to get all the updates in one fell swoop, and you’re bound to get other improvements that you previously didn’t have.
Some of the more interesting claims for SP1 are related to performance:
• Vista SP1 is said to vastly improve file copying, which as you probably know can be painfully slow at times. According to Microsoft, you’ll find that file copying is much as 50% faster when copying files between two Vista SP1 systems. You’ll reportedly experience a 45% performance increase when copying files between a Vista SP1 system and a non-Vista SP1 system. And, Redmond says, you’ll experience a 25% performance increase when copying files locally.
• You may have noticed that Internet Explorer is slower on Vista than previous versions of IE when you’re visiting sites that use a lot of JavaScript. SP1 will improve that performance lag. Microsoft says that with SP1, IE on Vista should become as fast as IE on previous versions of Windows.
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