Win7 SP1 released to public

James Colbert said:

Night Hawk said:

Once a clean install is performed...

Thanks!

You're welcome! :)

For anyone running into any problems with system restarts when trying to put a 7 system into hibernation Softpedia has a report on the fix for this seen at Download Windows 7 SP1 Restart / Hibernation Issue Fix - Softpedia

Windows 7 doesn't actually need all the fixes that previous versions ran into a need for. The expression "works right out of the box" is one thing that seems to hold true in most cases.

With XP for example over 1000 fixes were finally seen with SP3! SP1 addressed the 137gb barrier problem when drive capacities were suddenly growing from 2-20gb into hundred of gigs. SP 2 had some other fixes as well as enabling support for newer options.

With Vista didn't have any fixes needed besides reporting a 4gb total with the 32bit Windows being run with 4gb of memory installed. SP2 there was more of a large wrap of security updates there. For 7 however MS had collected a great deal more feedback from the typical user when far more went for the beta and RC builds which certainly helped working out more of the bugs then previously seen.

And the one other thing is seeing 7 actually run better on older hardwares simply from being an updated OS to start with over the need for patches, fixes for older versions. Kind of gives 7 an edge there too!