Vista Performance and Reliability Pack Unofficial Release

[stash]

There's no guarantee that these will be released on Patch Tuesday (I don't know either way). Patch Tuesday is the day that security updates are released, and this is not a security update. Sometimes non-security updates on released at the same time as security updates, but they don't follow a regular release schedule like security patches.

 

[dds14u]

Wonder if this fixes the hibernate *no video* bug with Nvidia cards...

 

[Cutthroat]

Seems it may have broken my reliability monitor, my graph stopped updating the day I installed the update, there is a possibility it was something else but I really didn't do anything else impaortant that day that I remember. Anyway I used an image to go back and I'll have to see what happens when the official one comes out.

 

[Noema]

Official release is out:

Performance and Reliability

Compatibility and Reliability

 

[Skypix7]

For those of you struggling to get 4GB or more RAM to show up on your systems with Vista 64bit, I got my 8GB working by installing the patches recommended above, and also switched, in BIOS,

my ACPI to v2.0, (the highest it would go) and memswapping to ENABLE. Before, the memswap had made Vista so unstable I couldn't even open Notepad without it freezing and refusing to work, and task manager wouldn't close it.

But with the changes above, it's been stable for the last 24 hours and everything seems to be working fine...and fast.

I'll be talking with my system's builder, allpczone (consumerlx.com) tomorrow about it to see if they have different recommendations, but for now it's working. Will post back if anything changes.

Also, this step was recommended by several people who said it fixed the memory recognition problem:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929777

I read this on the Microsoft tech forum:

http://forums.microsoft.com/technet...4&siteid=17&sb=0&d=1&at=7&ft=11&tf=0&pageid=8

my rig: ASUS P5W DH DELUXE, 8GB Kingston DDR2 667, supposedly the latest BIOS, I haven't checked that yet though.

 

[Skypix7]

More possibilities: I just heard back from a research tech at Microsoft. The level one tech I'd talked to the day before didn't even know that 64bit Vista Home Premium would see more than 4GB RAM! He was nice but undereducated...I kindly recommended that he get some more basic training in OS features before keeping people like me on hold 30 minutes while he checked with superiors who would tell him to tell me that he couldn't solve my problem...which had been pretty clear after 5 minutes. NIce guy (Indian fellow from near Bombay) but obviously a newbie.

Anyway!

Here's what the more knowledgeable tech recommended to help Vista do its job properly with over-4GB systems:

data execution prevention disabled (basically doing a cmd line change)
SPAE switch on (he said Vista isn't supposed to work with that but to try it anyway)

I'll have details on how to do this when I get my email installed, he sent me an tech note but I can't open it yet.