Windows Vista - A Guide for dummies

[sushrukh]

Microsoft released a preview of an upcoming Vista Performance and Reliability Pack to its beta testers.



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Vista Performance and Reliability Pack

• Improves performance in resuming back to the desktop from the Photo and Windows Energy screensaver.

• Resolves an issue where some secured web pages using advanced security technologies may not get displayed in Internet Explorer on Windows Vista.

• Resolves an issue where a shared printer may not get installed if the printer is connected to a Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 system and User Access Control is disabled on the Vista client.

• Resolves an issue where creating AVI files on Vista may get corrupted.

• Improves the performance in calculating the ‘estimated time remaining’ when copying/moving large files.

• Improves performance in bringing up Login Screen after resuming from Hibernate.

• Resolves an issue where synchronization of offline files to a server can get corrupted.

• Resolves a compatibility issue with RAW images created by Canon EOS 1D/1DS Digital SLR Camera which can lead to data loss. This only affects RAW images created by these two specific camera models.

• Resolves an issue where a computer can lose its default Gateway address when resuming from sleep mode.

• Improves the performance when copying or moving entire directories containing large amounts of data or files.

• Improves the performance of Vista’s Memory Manager in specific customer scenarios and prevents some issues which may lead to memory corruption.

Vista Compatibility and Reliability Pack

• Improved reliability and compatibility of Vista when used with newer graphics cards in several specific scenarios and configurations.

• Improved reliability when working with external displays on a laptop.

• Increased compatibility with many video drivers.

• Improved visual appearance of games with high intensity graphics.

• Improved quality of playback for HD-DVD and Blue-Ray disks on large monitors.

• Improved reliability for Internet Explorer when some third party toolbars are installed on Vista.

• Improved Vista reliability in networking configuration scenarios.

• Improved the reliability of Windows Calendar in Vista.

• Improved reliability of systems that were upgraded from XP to Vista.

• Increased compatibility with many printer drivers.

• Increased reliability and performance of Vista when entering sleep and resuming from sleep.

Link :- http://technet.microsoft.com/

[zachig]

Just wanted to let you know sush, that yesterday evening I changed the BOOT screen, and it worked like charm.

Look much better right now...THX

[nes]

Yup, I'll buy into that one too. Aurora booter-screen on the 'puter'-- Soon as I get out of work I'm changing mine aswell.

[nes]

I got a crazy blue screen when I added the no GUI boot from msconfig. It happened once and the dump went real smooth and quick..lol

System rebooted and no problems.

[sushrukh]

Happy to know that you have got it workin' friend.

[Dragon_CPU]

I have a question for you SUSH is ther a way to change the bubbles screensaver and make the bubbles be blue only instead of cycling through colors if so that would be nice I like the bubbles just not all the colors.

[DemonicDerek]

Wow thats a lot of stuff! I will have to read that after I finish reading this book.

[Chyld]

I'm definitely a dummy when it comes to Vista. I'm new to it just recently upgraded my set up and