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SP1 includes a luxuriant collection of tweaks designed to boost the performance of Vista, but at the same time with a warning from Microsoft: "Performance improvements vary from PC to PC based on hardware, environment, scenarios, and usage, so different customers will experience varying levels of benefits. About 20-25% of these improvements will be released separately via Windows update, prior to Windows Vista SP1." The truth of the matter is that the RTM version of Vista managed to hit a variety of speed bumps when it came down to performing mundane and anodyne scenarios, such as copying and moving files or extracting content from archives. Below you will be able to find a few excerpts from a much more extensive list provided by Microsoft underlining the performance enhancements synonymous with SP1.

• Improves the performance of browsing network file shares, by consuming less bandwidth.
• Improves the speed of adding and extracting files to and from a compressed (zipped) folder.
• Significantly improves the speed of moving a directory with many files underneath.
• Improves performance while copying files using BITS (Background Intelligent Transfer Service).
• Improves performance over Windows Vista's current performance across the following scenarios:
- 25% faster when copying files locally on the same disk on the same machine;
- 45% faster when copying files from a remote non-Windows Vista system to a SP1 system;
- 50% faster when copying files from a remote SP1 system to a local SP1 system;
- Improves responsiveness when doing many kinds of file or media manipulations. For example, with Windows Vista today, copying files after deleting a different set of files can make the copy operation take longer than needed. In SP1, the file copy time is the same as if no files were initially deleted.
• Improves the copy progress estimation when copying files within Windows Explorer to about two seconds.
• Improves the time to read large images by approximately 50%.
• Improves overall media performance, by reducing many glitches.
• The Windows Vista SP1 install process clears the user-specific data that is used by Windows to optimize performance, which may make the system feel less responsive immediately after install. As the customer uses the SP1 PC, the system will be retrained over the course of a few hours or days, and will return to the previous level of responsiveness.
• SP1 addresses a number of customer performance concerns with new print driver technologies, including XPS-based printing.
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Microsoft did come out with an official comment, saying that any testing is irrelevant in the context of an absent version of Vista SP1 RTM. The company is, of course, right. Beta builds of Vista SP1 will not impact on a large scale users of the operating system.
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With SP1, Windows Vista will report the amount of system memory installed rather than report the amount of system memory available to the OS. Therefore 32-bit systems equipped with 4GB of RAM will report all 4BG in many places throughout the OS, such as the System Control Panel. However, this behavior is dependent on having a compatible BIOS, so not all users may notice this change", Microsoft explained.

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