Windows Vista SP1 in Detail

Windows Vista SP1 release will be in a few days so maybe its time we knew the expected changes and hotfixes, even security changes for Windows Vista. With loads of added hardware compatibility, better system reliability, and even better performance, energy saving for laptops and a whole lot more.

  • Adds support for Direct3D® 10.1, an update to Direct3D 10 that extends the API to support new hardware features.
  • SP1 addresses issues many of the most common causes of crashes and hangs in Windows Vista, as reported by Windows Error Reporting. These include issues relating to Windows Calendar, Windows Media Player, and a number of drivers included with Windows Vista.
  • Adds support for exFAT, a new file system supporting larger overall capacity and larger files, which will be used in Flash memory storage and consumer devices.
  • Enhances support for high density drives by adding new icons and labels that will identify HD-DVD and Blu-ray Drives as high density drives.
  • Improvement of power consumption and battery life.
  • Improvement the speed of adding and extracting files to and from a compressed (zipped) folder.
  • Improves the speed of copying files, folders, and other media.
  • Improves startup and resume times when using ReadyBoost.
  • Users can control which volumes the disk defragmenter runs on.

Via DownloadSquad

Written by PC Freak on December 10th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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