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Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:
Well, I was hoping MS might have corrected their problems with SP1,
but it looks like they are up a creek without a paddle (boating
reference).


More b.s. from Reggie the Snark, who doesn't give a tinker's dam
about Vista, but only posts this crap to *try* to annoy VISTA users,
who, sadly for him, think him only a bigger fool for playing this
game.


I don't have my kid's Vista laptop here to poke around in. I'd like
to call him and give him a heads-up. How do you check quickly for the
presence of a service pack? Right click "my computer", as done with
XP?


I'm not sure SP1 downloads all by itself.

In any event, I'm running SP1 VISTA. Everything on this system is
running in nominal fashion.


Do you have a "my computer" icon on the desktop? If yes, please right
click it, click properties, and tell me if you see any mention of which
service pack is on the machine.

What I heard two days ago is that the Vista SP1 at this point in time
must be requested by the users. Sometime next month MS will start
pushing it to everyone.

Just what I've heard, take it for what it's worth.

You are correct. If you want it this month, you have to go into update,
select it and tell it to upgrade. For most machines, about an hour.

SP1 does not fix all issues. It did improve memory management a bit,
improvements in network copy performance and disk to disk copy. I think
it even fixed a bug or two in mail.

But am I happy with Vista? Nope. But not going to double pay for MS for
XP either. Testing out some Linux alternatives.

What sorts of memory management issues are you noticing? How do they
manifest themselves?

The one that hit me was excessive memory use. After clean boot the OS was
using almost 2GB of RAM. After ripping hard on support they gave me a patch
that does not load automatically - dropped it down to 1.45GB or so and
nothing else changed.

I am not sure, but think it is in SP1.