Vista Performance and Reliability Pack Unofficial Release

[gizbug]

Please note: These fixes break all current methods of bypassing driver singing requirements except the good old F8 during boot (that you have to do every single time you start vista)

IF you are using Rivatuner, atitool and or Peerguardian on 64bit vista, you will have to use F8 every single time to disable driver signing requirements to use those two programs. x86 version is unaffected.

These updates should go official on the next patch Tuesday (in one weeks time). Please read more for the download links and information on these updates.

938979 Vista Performance and Reliability Pack
This update resolves a number of individual issues which may be affecting some computers running Windows Vista. These issues have been reported by customers using the Error Reporting service, product support, or other means. Installing this update will improve the performance and responsiveness for some scenarios and improves reliability of Windows Vista in a variety of scenarios. Some examples of the improvements contained in this update are:

* 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.

938194 Vista Compatibility and Reliability Pack
This update resolves a number of individual issues which may be affecting some computers running Windows Vista. These issues have been reported by customers using the Error Reporting service, product support, or other means. Installing this update will improve the reliability and hardware compatibility of Windows Vista in a variety of scenarios. Some examples of the improvements contained in this update are:

* 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.


Vista64
http://www.mediafire.com/?11uzn4hfjng

Vista32
http://www.mediafire.com/?by1409dy9zt

 

[funkbass81]

not clicking that

 

[gizbug]

Your lose. Works great here. Copying files has never been faster.

 

[tylerw13]

Originally posted by: gizbug
Your lose. Works great here. Copying files has never been faster.

amen!!!

ive updated it and it really works and helps in the copying of files and other small things...loading programs seems faster and vista just isnt as laggy!!!

 

[Mem]

Originally posted by: gizbug
Your lose. Works great here. Copying files has never been faster.

I can wait for the official release,besides been using Vista for 6 months without problems so what's a week for the official version.

Never know they might make last minute changes.

 

[nerp]

Yeah I don't really have any major problems with my Vista install. I'll hold out and wait for this update to be dished out through WU.

 

[Noema]

Originally posted by: nerp
I'll hold out and wait for this update to be dished out through WU.

 

[VladMM]

Whatever, wait if you want to, I've installed it and the machine is a lot snappier, not to mention that the silly "calculating time remaining" bug is finally gone.

Great stuff, thanks to the OP.

 

[Noema]

Originally posted by: VladMM
Whatever, wait if you want to, I've installed it and the machine is a lot snappier, not to mention that the silly "calculating time remaining" bug is finally gone.

Great stuff, thanks to the OP.

That won't work in my Vista install since mine is in Spanish, so I might as well wait for the official release

 

[VladMM]

Sure, I can understand that. I for one am not worried to install this, I remember running the beta of SP2 for a long while before it came out with no problems, and this is far from a beta.

 

[heymrdj]

I'll wait for the WU to release it for my X64. Sounds great though, transferrring backups from my laptop, I know that darn copying bug.

Is this any where near Vista SP1? Maby just Vista SP1/2?

 

[bsobel]

FYI, links appear dead. Did anyone mirror them?

 

[XDS]

Here are links to the 32 Bit version of the UPRP

http://www.gbe0.com/windows/Windows6.0_KB938979_x86.msu

http://www.gbe0.com/windows/Windows6.0_KB938194_x86.msu


And I know the 64Bit version is in the same place so it would be....


http://www.gbe0.com/windows/Windows6.0_KB[FILL IN THE REST]

http://www.gbe0.com/windows/Windows6.0_KB[FILE IN THE REST]


Someone help me out I don't have the 64Bit file names..

 

[XDS]

NM I found em

http://www.gbe0.com/windows/Windows6.0_KB938194_x64.msu

&

http://www.gbe0.com/windows/Windows6.0_KB938979_x64.msu


You can read about this fix at ....

http://technet.microsoft.com/e...owsvista/aa905071.aspx

And

http://thehotfixshare.net/boar...dex.php?showtopic=2962



For those of you who are dead set on not installing these until Tuesday try and at least give them a chance and read up about em.

I was also dead set on not installing them till they are officially released ,
However you need to keep in mind one thing , microsoft is getting better at the patch game not worse. And much like procreation they keep getting better and better and better etc etc etc

So there is hope here with these patches.

Especially for those of us with 64BIT systems.


My office has 30 64 Bit systems half are running XP the other half just uped to VISTA Ultimate , and come tomorrow I plan on installing this on all 15 of em!

 

[VladMM]

Just one question - when these are officially released, what will Automatic Update do on the machines which were patched using this beta version? Will it overwrite them, or see them as already installed?

 

[XDS]

VladMM ,

WU probably will take over seeing these are MUS files and I think they will probably be released as a "compilation" fix.

However going the other way here ,.... they might not considering the fact they have to do with performance and driver updates.


I guess it will depend on how many (if any) changes they need to make last minute.

And from what I have been hearing on TechNet I can't tell at this point.


I can only hope that this will be the final candidate. , Seeing how every MSDN user and EVERY user of microsoft's connect site has access to these files.

These may very well be the final candidates.


Who knows ? Any bets ?

 

[VladMM]

Thanks, but what I actually meant is, let's assume that these make it to WU, in the rollup form. Also suppose that they bump up the version to indicate that it is the final release.

Now, I check WU - will it tell me there are no new updates for my system (cos I installed the beta) or will it pull the final version and install?

 

[Mem]

Originally posted by: XDS
NM I found em

http://www.gbe0.com/windows/Windows6.0_KB938194_x64.msu

&

http://www.gbe0.com/windows/Windows6.0_KB938979_x64.msu


You can read about this fix at ....

http://technet.microsoft.com/e...owsvista/aa905071.aspx

And

http://thehotfixshare.net/boar...dex.php?showtopic=2962



For those of you who are dead set on not installing these until Tuesday try and at least give them a chance and read up about em.

I was also dead set on not installing them till they are officially released ,
However you need to keep in mind one thing , microsoft is getting better at the patch game not worse. And much like procreation they keep getting better and better and better etc etc etc

So there is hope here with these patches.

Especially for those of us with 64BIT systems.


My office has 30 64 Bit systems half are running XP the other half just uped to VISTA Ultimate , and come tomorrow I plan on installing this on all 15 of em!

No offence but I rather get the official version nextweek,as I have already stated waiting a week is no big deal,if you want to install them now then do so at your own risk,remember we don't even know if the official ones nextweek will be exactly the same or what changes if any are made.

 

[bucwylde23]

Why should I install it now? I am satisfied with the way my Vista machine runs. A week is nothing..

 

[XDS]

To the last 3 posters ....

Well i installed em , I'd say maybe a 10 - 15% increase in performance .

Opening system folders and overall disk access is a tad more snapier.

I'm not a gamer or a benchmarker so idunno bout that , but i have to say this was a plus to install

Hey , i'll take it

 

[XDS]

Sorry VladMM , you impose a good question tho , for what it's worth .


If I had to guess tho I would have to say no , WU will not prompt you on this one.

 

[VladMM]

What's the big deal - no one is forcing you to install them. The OP made a post informing people, not asking you to install it. If you want to wait, great, your choice, but what's the point of posting things like "Why should I install it"

 

[nerp]

Well, it never hurts to have a discussion about the possible effects of installing updates prior to release. Let's say that SP1 leaks out two weeks early in a few months. I'd have a lot of questions about installing it, similar to the questions being asked in here. It's better than just wondering.

It is looking very promising with all these reports of greatly improved performance and compatibility. But there will always be the purists among us; even though we know it probably won't harm us, we prefer to do things the 'official' way.

 

[VladMM]

I'm all for debate and questions. I've even asked some in this thread.

But the people I am reffering to are not asking any questions, they are going "No way, I'm not installing this, ecverything is fine etc etc"

That's not a discussion, and not constructive.

 

[Mem]

Originally posted by: VladMM
I'm all for debate and questions. I've even asked some in this thread.

But the people I am reffering to are not asking any questions, they are going "No way, I'm not installing this, ecverything is fine etc etc"

That's not a discussion, and not constructive.

You want a proper discussion?...then wait until we install the official version nextweek,you can't blame us for not wanting to install them right now,bottomline is 99.99% of users here can wait until nextweek,it's not like your Vista will explode by then.