Vista SP1. No gracias. Não agradecimentos.
This morning, I took the plunge to adapt Vista to SP1 on G2S. The 435MB download had been sitting around wasting space, so why not make some of that space permanently filled up by a rather large patch?
Overall, the installation of SP1 was pretty uneventful and completed in under one hour. To start off with though, I couldn’t get the setup started due to some additional languages being present on the default installation delivered by Asus. A visit to the Control Panel to remove Spanish and Portuguese language components was all that was required. The length of time the removal of those language components took belies the indicated 0MB in use by them in the Control Panel…
The initial stage of the setup takes place in Vista. It’s recommended that one doesn’t continue working, as a restart will be forced once the extraction and file copy operation has been completed.
The bulk of the operation takes place outside of the user interface, with a number of system restarts and three main stages with their respective progress indicated in percentages complete. Nothing to report here. There’s not even an indication of files being copied.
One last restart and the system was available once again. In just less than one hour, the system had been patched:
The immediate improvement of being able to hide forever the warning on connection to a remote desktop is worth the installation of SP1 alone! I can’t say that I’ve seen too much of a performance increase so far.
Disclosure: I have to admit that Vista is not as bad as I initially thought. It’s certainly been more stable than I expected and I trust that the addition of SP1 will improve some of the other usability issues I have experienced with Vista.
