Every Wednesday night @ 8pm EST when we do the PCMech Live broadcast, one question always comes up, that being:
Does the Windows Vista Service Pack 1 really fix anything?
The answer is yes, it does. I have to go by reported information because I don’t use Vista, I use Windows XP Professional Edition (with Service Pack 3.)
The caveat to using Windows Vista has remained the same: Use newer hardware/software/peripherals or the OS won’t work correctly. That has not changed. In addition, you should use newer quality hardware/software/peripherals. If you have something known as “junkware”, it will perform like, well.. junk.
You will notice at this point that, seemingly like magic, not as many people are complaining about Vista as they were in pre-SP1 days. Except it’s not magic. Many fixes were applied and many of them worked. I won’t say all of them worked, but most did.
If you have a computer running Windows Vista and haven’t upgraded to SP1 (why I don’t know,) you should. It has been confirmed to help out quite a bit concerning the overall operation of the OS.
If you’re still using Windows XP, don’t take this article as an indicator to run out and get Vista. If you like Windows and want to stay with it, wait for Windows 7.
[Source: Chron.com]
Rich Menga is PCMech's video guy, an author and part-time host of PCMech LIVE.
Eliot Alter said:
5/28/2008 5:39 pm
Why didn’t you post what it actually fixed? There were tons of things wrong before the service pack, yet you didn’t list what was fixed and what still needed work…
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David M said:
5/29/2008 12:18 pm
I have both Vista 32 and Vista 64 and they both work just fine under SP1. Don’t know why so many are scared.
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