Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Improvements

In the first quarter of 2008, Microsoft released Windows Vista Service Pack 1, a major update to Windows Vista. Most of the updates resolve performance and reliability problems. As a result, you should deploy Service Pack 1 to your Windows Vista computers as quickly as possible after thoroughly testing all applications and hardware with the update.

The major improvements are:

  • Usability improvements

    • The number of UAC (User Account Control) prompts is reduced from 4 to 1 when creating or renaming a folder at a protected location.

    • 32-bit operating systems must reserve part of the total 4 GB theoretical address space for video memory, bus address space, and other system resources. Therefore, even if a computer ...

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