I must say, I’ve been impressed. My biggest beef with Vista was its file-handling capabilities especially slow file copy/move operations. Now, these operations are fast and my systems more stable overall.

The list of changes is available at the Technet site. The number of fixes is mind-boggling. It’s pretty obvious Vista was rushed out the door to appease users who had been waiting for XP’s successor while the developers continued work on SP1. Now Vista is a half-decent product and it seems it can only get better.

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One of the amusing things in Nash’s announcement went like this:

SP1 also includes changes focused on improving the performance of Windows Vista in areas that impact the customer experience the most. For instance, with SP1, copying or moving files around your PC, your home network or your corporate network should now be much faster — up to 50% faster in some scenarios (according to our internal tests).

Really? Fifty-percent faster than what?!?. Ok let’s start at an arbitrary number of say, 100. This is my file handling speed in XP and W2K3. Now Vista slows things down by 50% to 50 (it’s actually worse in real life). Now, performance is increased by 50% to 75. Hey, guess what? It’s still slower than XP and W2K3!! Ah, the dangers of talking in percentages.

Like seriously, when I ask an OS to delete a folder, just delete the damned folder. Don’t sit there “discovering”… or “calculating”…just delete my damned folder.

I had no file move/copy/delete issues whatsoever in XP and Windows Server 2003.

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