BETA Vista Performance, Compatibility and Reliability Pack Options

[xable]

Microsoft have released two beta hotfix`s for windows vista. It is not recomended to install these on a production machine because they are beta.

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.

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.

[terroradagio]

Working fine on Vista 32bit.

[zed260]

anybody know what files these hotfixes replace

[xable]

No, but you can use sereby`s Hotfix Extractor to find out.

[zed260]

dang talk about lots of updated dll files these have probly got half the hotfixes in the share in them

[mirage]

amazing, thanks for sharing

[knacki99]

How did you get a hold of these?. Ah just saw the other thread. Not much information is available on these it seems.

EDIT: The files are not more than update rollup packages and not much more beta than any other hotfix we share here. The Compatibility hotfix has an dxgkrnl.sys update and fixes minor other annoyances.

The larger performance update has two (?) updated screensavers if I remember correctly, an already superseded shell32.dll fix (628 while the newest is 642) and a kernel (ntoskrnl.exe) update which already is on the share (628?) and an csc.sys update (628) plus some more.

It is nice to have some of the latest mixed with some we do not have yet, but it is by no means half of the share. I haven't counted the fixes but I estimate that there about 20 separate hotfixes in the two updates.

Just a quick note on the above for all members. KUDOS to Sereby for the extractor tool! Very handy.

This post has been edited by knacki99: Jul 30 2007, 06:38 AM

[xable]

The files are not more than update rollup packages and not much more beta than any other hotfix we share here.

Yes it is a rollup and it is more beta than the average unofficial hotfix which is why I`ve put it here instead of the download manager. There have been a few compatibility issues reported at the few places people are talking about it too, so better to be safe than sorry and keep it seperate for now. I expect it will become publicly available in future anyway because their been so active in developing. Wouldn`t be supprised if their are regular revisions either.

Just a quick note on the above for all members. KUDOS to Sereby for the extractor tool! Very handy.

Handy indeed, decided it needed to be shared so offered a place sereby could post it. Now he`s added the multiple hotfix extraction I requested it`s replaced my batch files which is a huge time saver.

[sgegreen]

There's a problem downloading the larger 938979 hotfix on our island.

We have BT's crippled Exchange Activate 512 kb/s broadband and no matter what I try, IE7, Firefox or wget, on two separate PCs , one running XPH SP2, the other running Vista Ultimate, on two internet connections in two houses, one on BT Home Broadband and the other on ScotNet, the download stops after a variable time.

The most I've managed to download is about 85% of the file and the download will not restart, even with wget, which is unusual.

The download seems to be going fine but then there is a pause for around 30 seconds and the download fails.

Is there some problem with the way your download manager's timeouts are set?

[sgegreen]

Download finally succeeded after more than 20 attempts.