Win7 SP1 released to public

IggyAZ said:

Just finalized the install of SP1. Took about 45 minutes from download to final reboot and install. When installing it does hang a bit at 35%. I figure its doing its magic finding or deleting old files.
Anyway we will see if we notice anything different.

What differences have you noticed?
Faster speed in IE?
Or what?

I do not think we should see things that way.

If you look at all hotfixes furnished inside, not talking security updates rolled, it's pretty good to know that so many issues had been fixed.
In long term talking i would say yes it is improvement.

I think for some people, it will probably improve their system performance quite a bit, for others, the improvements my be negligible. It probably depends on what software you have and how recent your copy of Win 7 is.

But I am interested in people posting their positive/negative experiences with it.

Either way, I'm going to wait a couple days at least since:

A) I'd like to see if any major bugs emerge.

B) The entire planets Windows systems are, at this point (and probably for the next few days), focused on MS headquarters.

The only things I see is that my screens pop a little faster in IE but I also noticed an increase in memory usage well after the install and startup of Win7. I will look further to see what might be running.
It also reinstalled the basic default items in my Favorites when I open Explore.

NoN said:

Luckystar said:

Sweet, my PC needs updating as its not been done yet afer a fresh install last week.

This will save no end of time and i think i might try slipstreaming but after reading Shaun's tuorial he says 'Retail-Only' or ISO.

I have an OEM version, can i not rip my DVD to an ISO and do it that way or is there still limitations?

Lucky

You should be able to burn the SP1.iso on dvd then install it from there...

Either you should able aswell to slipstream a dvd with SP1, then install and use your key on sticker on the back of your laptop.

You'll loose your restore partition and you'll have to create a new one.

Ah thats alright.

And i have a desktop but the sticker is on back.

Don't have a restore partition, yet... but now i have my new 2tb hdd... i can.

Thanks for the help NoN.

Lucky

Tried to download the update last night. gave up after 2 hours. Sat at 0% for 30 mins then downloaded 90MB in a couple of minutes this morning. Install took 30 mins no problems except I lost all my restore points (maybe that was something else. I notice an event log error on VSS when I upgraded Paint .Net yesterday). Also had the .Net optimization service hogging cpu for about 15 mins. Apart from the first reboot booting seems faster and the whole intall seems zippier. But maybe thats wishful thinking.

I have just noticed IE8 is now show Protected Mode is OFF and I'm unable to turn on.
I have set UAC to default and also set TweakUAC to silent mode.

Any suggestions?


Solved
I deleted the IE icon from desktop and went to Programs files and found IE and selected to make a new icon on desktop. After that the IE8 desktop icon will start IE8 in Prtected Mode ON.
It also works with my taskbar icon correctly.
Check yours

pestul said:

I can report a very significant performance increase on my end. I'm using Windows 7 Pro x64 with a i7 @4GHz, 6GB. Everything just feels 'zippy' now. Hard to explain, but everything from program loading to explorer navigation feels A LOT faster. Browsing through photo folders is great now. I've yet to test games, but I'm already happy with this SP.

Ditto - although only 4GB RAM and slower CPU.

Through windows update I only need 88.7MB of SP1 x64 - nice.