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POLL: Windows Vista SP1 bug fix and performance poll

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Originally posted by: JustaGeek
Originally posted by: 13Gigatons
I may skip service pack 1 and wait until service pack 2 comes out.
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And why would you do that....?

I got the SP1 by some "divine mercy" through Windows Update last Thursday and it made my system visibly more responsive.

Don't get frightened by some articles written by people who have no first hand experience - remember, the press loves "doom and gloom". 😉

EDIT: I just glanced through the computerworld article - what scared you so much about SP1...?
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There are some new problems that are cropping up in sp1 that were unexpected. Like PDA's and other mobile devices not being recognized. I think I will wait until sp1 is widely available and tested before upgrading my currently decently running Vista RTM machine.

Plus like the Office 2007 sp1 which did not fix the bugs that I was having I imagine that sp1 won't fix the current bugs I have until sp2.
 
I've been running the "accidental" SP1 release for just shy of two weeks now. System performance is back up to where it was prior to the service pack now that super-fetch has relearned my usage patterns.

System stability has been extremely good. Under XP I found I needed to reboot about once every two or three days or games, like EverQuest 2, would perform really badly. Under Vista that time expanded to about 4 or 5 days. Right now, my uptime is sitting at 10 days 12 hours and no signs of performance loss in any of the games I regularly play.

Overall, I think it's an excellent service patch.
 
I'm very happy with SP1 on both my Vista x64,x86 systems.

SP1 did fix a problem my brother had with it taking ages to shut down,he had one minor issue which was on installation of SP1 ie he lost sound ,however nothing a simple reinstall of sound drivers could not fix.
 
SP1 final is working fine for me on my laptop. Still have XP Pro on the desktop - but just installed SP3 RC2, and it works nicely as well. Both OS's boot/load faster with the SPs.
 
In my laptop.
The add-on gadgets are constantly eating up about 49% of cpu time.
The add-ons include cpu gauge, calendar, and time clock.
Is it normal?
Not sure this has happened before or after installing the SP1.
 
I have a crap load of gadgets, and at their worst they'll use maybe 10% of my cpu. Many are system monitors, and gadgets that interact with multimedia, so I'm probably higher than average.
 
Originally posted by: videopho
In my laptop.
The add-on gadgets are constantly eating up about 49% of cpu time.
The add-ons include cpu gauge, calendar, and time clock.
Is it normal?
Not sure this has happened before or after installing the SP1.
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On my Conroe 2 lappy 2Ghz,I have only 3 gadgets which are radio,weather,clock...anyway even with radio on it goes anywhere between 1 to 7% with 3 % being average,this is with SP1 installed.


Its very possible some third party gadgets are not optimized efficiently for Vista,especially some third party clocks,calendars etc...

Also does no harm to run a full AV scan,check for spyware etc...
 
I have noticed that sidebar tends to eat cycles over time. After a few days of my system being up I began to notice the CPU being more and more active without anything running. I closed sidebar and re-loaded it and things went back to normal. I'm guessing it has something to do with one of the gadgets I using in sidebar.
 
Originally posted by: Griffinhart
I have noticed that sidebar tends to eat cycles over time. After a few days of my system being up I began to notice the CPU being more and more active without anything running. I closed sidebar and re-loaded it and things went back to normal. I'm guessing it has something to do with one of the gadgets I using in sidebar.
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That's the exact symptom that my lappy has exhibited as described several posts ago. I now need to be more attentive to what I want to put on the side-bar.
 
i installed sp1 via separate installer last night. it took less than a half hour, with 2 reboots.

the only differences i've noticed so far:

when playing a video, the player (ANY player) will crash if using the mouse wheel to seek. there are reports of mouse wheel related crashes in other apps.

file transfers from 1 hard drive to another (cut/paste from C to D) have slowed from 55-60 MB/s max to 45-50 MB/s max. the rate of acceleration may be slower too.

a couple more processes running. hey, when you're already in the mid-60's, what's a few more? if i let everything run by default, i'd have close to 80 processes eating up my computer, 99% of the time doing nothing.


this was an improvement on a fundamentally sound product?
NO and NO
 
Originally posted by: The Boston Dangler
a couple more processes running. hey, when you're already in the mid-60's, what's a few more? if i let everything run by default, i'd have close to 80 processes eating up my computer, 99% of the time doing nothing.
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If you are running more than 40 processes, you have a bigger problem than Vista. You have way too many startup programs running in the background.

With Avira Antivirus running and Windows Defender real time scanning turned off, I am running 39 processes. I have done little tweaking to anything else, so you have a much bigger problem than Vista with that many processes running.

Edit: I turned system restore off because I use my own imaging solution for backing up.
 
Originally posted by: soonerproud
Originally posted by: The Boston Dangler
a couple more processes running. hey, when you're already in the mid-60's, what's a few more? if i let everything run by default, i'd have close to 80 processes eating up my computer, 99% of the time doing nothing.
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If you are running more than 40 processes, you have a bigger problem than Vista. You have way too many startup programs running in the background.

With Avira Antivirus running and Windows Defender real time scanning turned off, I am running 39 processes. I have done little tweaking to anything else, so you have a much bigger problem than Vista with that many processes running.

Edit: I turned system restore off because I use my own imaging solution for backing up.
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system restore off, nothing scheduled, etc.
right now, 57 processes
5 from AVG, 4 from the razer mouse, 2 from logitech, 2 from sidebar, opera, punkbuster (xp has 2), ntune, imon, speedfan.

i consider anti-virus mandatory, and they all have a handfull of processes. so that makes 13 that i put there. microsoft put 44, 15 of which are svchost.exe. that's after turning off everything that was useless, like wmdm and ehtray. in my situation, these things have no reason to be running. spoolsv cannot be shut off, even if the computer has never seen a printer.
 
Originally posted by: soonerproud
Originally posted by: The Boston Dangler
a couple more processes running. hey, when you're already in the mid-60's, what's a few more? if i let everything run by default, i'd have close to 80 processes eating up my computer, 99% of the time doing nothing.
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If you are running more than 40 processes, you have a bigger problem than Vista. You have way too many startup programs running in the background.

With Avira Antivirus running and Windows Defender real time scanning turned off, I am running 39 processes. I have done little tweaking to anything else, so you have a much bigger problem than Vista with that many processes running.

Edit: I turned system restore off because I use my own imaging solution for backing up.
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I have 50 but I'm working with several apps right now.
 
it seems the file transfer speeds have come back to normal. the video player crash remains. mpc-hc seems to crash the least, zoom player crashes the most, regardless of the renderer.
 
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