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Well I’ve been using Vista SP1 for a few days now, and I have to admit I think it’s brought some improvements to the overall user experience. I was about ready to scrap Vista because of the annoying little things that just flat-out shouldn’t be there (i.e. getting a spinning hourglass when creating a folder).

I have a Quad-core core2 system with 4GB of RAM, so it’s definitely up to spec, and it still seemed slower than XP on my older AMD 2200+. Once I installed Vista’s SP1 Release Candidate, those little speed bumps seemed to disappear. It still takes awhile to open some folders, for some reason I get the green progress bar when opening some folders (in some cases it takes 15-20 seconds to actually open the folder), but everything else seems to have sped up.

This is a RC of SP1, and it’s time-bombed until June 2008, so you’ll need to uninstall this version of the SP when you install the final code. The RTM code should be available Q1 of 2008. Presumably this version of the code has debugging enabled, so we may see additional performance enhancements once it goes live.

I of course haven’t performed any scientific testing, nor have I benchmarked anything other than by using the system and noticing some speed improvements. I also believe the TCP/IP stack is more stable, as my RDP connections haven’t dropped since upgrading, whereas they’d drop in and out pre-SP1.

You can download Vista SP1 RC from Microsoft’s Website.