Have you ever heard that the first service pack for Windows Vista had rolled out in the last few days? Microsoft claiming it make the operating system more secure, to fix lots of bugs, and could even cure all known diseases. It didn’t notice a whole lot of difference, while took Service Pack 1 for a spin. For the entire stand-alone installation, it’s needed a 434.5MB download. By simply doing nothing but having auto updates enabled, you can wait for it to automatically update your current Vista operating system.

Taking about 30 minutes, the install went flawlessly from start to finish with a couple of reboots. While compared with Windows XP, the biggest flaw in Vista is: dog-slow file transfer speeds over a network. This new version of Vista, as Microsoft says, can do those transfers 45% faster. Our test group of 57 files, took 1:36 to transfer with SP1, totaling 847MB, compared with 1:45 using the original Vista. It is 9.4% faster not a 40% speedup. It is certainly welcome with the any extra speed on our Vista PC.

So, the conclusion, might be: As the Microsoft bashers say it is, Vista isn’t so bad. With this service pack, now it’s even more tolerable, especially if you disable all its nag screens.

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