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Vista SP1: What you need to know before you deploy

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Windows Vista received its first service pack update on March 18, 2008, about a year and three months after

its release. Many users were unaware that the service pack was even available. Your computer does not indicate the update was ready to download and, if you went to the Windows Update website, it may not be listed to download.

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Normally a service pack is jam-packed with all kinds of features to enhance the user experience and to update

the operating system, and well as fix known bugs, etc. Microsoft says the Service Pack will offer better compatibility with third-party hardware, increased reliability, tighter security, and better performance. But unlike the last Windows Service Pack release for Windows XP SP2, which offered users a new Windows Firewall, an improved Automatic Updates feature, and a pop-up ad blocker for Internet Explorer, Windows Vista SP1 is largely a code update, lacking any of new eye catching “must-have" features for home users. Most of the features advertised by Microsoft are for the Business, Enterprise, or Ultimate editions of the operating system. The home user will not see any overwhelming changes, as was the case for Windows XP SP2. Prior experience with previous releases of service packs has shown that some of these enhancements are not desirable to the user, and/or disable, delete, or, quite frankly, break parts of our operating system, applications, and/or devices that were running successfully before the service pack was deployed.

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