Microsoft shipped several important pre-SP1 updates today for Windows Vista. One of the updates is a roll up of reliability fixes and the other is a similar roll up to enhance performance. Here are some highlights of what is addressed by these updates.
| • | Visual appearance issues occur when you play graphics-intensive games. |
| • | You experience poor playback quality when you play HD DVD disks or Blu-ray disks on a large monitor. |
| • | Applications that load the Netcfgx.dll component exit unexpectedly. |
| • | Windows Calendar exits unexpectedly after you create a new appointment, create a new task, and then restart the computer. |
| • | Internet Connection Sharing stops responding after you upgrade a computer that is running Microsoft Windows XP to Windows Vista and then restart the computer. |
| • | The Printer Spooler service stops unexpectedly. | • | You experience a long delay when you try to exit the Photos screen saver. | | • | A memory leak occurs when you use the Windows Energy screen saver. | | • | If User Account Control is disabled on the computer, you cannot install a network printer successfully. This problem occurs if the network printer is hosted by a Windows XP-based or a Windows Server 2003-based computer. | | • | When you write data to an AVI file by using the AVIStreamWrite function, the file header of the AVI file is corrupted. | | • | When you copy or move a large file, the "estimated time remaining" takes a long time to be calculated and displayed. | | • | After you resume the computer from hibernation, it takes a long time to display the logon screen. | | • | When you synchronize an offline file to a server, the offline file is corrupted. | Reliability update Performance update |
Posted
Aug 07 2007, 01:29 PM
by
Josh Phillips
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