User:Kaini/vistasp1

my initial thoughts -

i can see 802.11n being a query we might come across. in fact i've seen a lot of these things queried in eSupport cases. borderline outside scope of course, but at least we have information to give the customer now ;)

i wonder if the group policy object editor mentioned will be released for Vista Home Premium? would make troubleshooting many things, from annoying wallpaper and sidebar bugs to even some wireless issues a lot less technical and involved. the fact that Vista Home Premium at present requires a registry hack to re-enable the OS sidebar/wallpaper/stuff is... not good.

also, new security APIs being introduced for the benefit of antivirus software that currently relies on the unsupported practice of patching the kernel sounds very, very like the root cause of the system restore only working in safe mode thing (everyone is aware of that one, right?)

there's a list of all the individual hotfixes contained in service pack 1 below as well. good TS stuff.

Service Pack 1 will be available to current Windows Vista users mid-March. A whitepaper published by Microsoft near the end of August 2007 outlined the scope and intent of the service pack, identifying three major areas of improvement: reliability and performance, administration experience, and support for newer hardware and standards.

One area of particular note is performance. Areas of improvement include file copy operations, hibernation, logging off on domain-joined machines, Javascript parsing in Internet Explorer, network file share browsing, Windows Explorer ZIP file handling, and Windows Disk Defragmenter. The ability to choose individual drives to defragment is being reintroduced as well.

Service Pack 1 introduces support for some new hardware and software standards, notably the exFAT file system, 802.11n wireless networking, IPv6 over VPN connections, and the Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol. An updated version of Windows Installer is included that provides support for multi-package transactions and embedding the user interface of a child Windows Installer package inside a parent installation session.

Two areas have seen changes in Service Pack 1 that have come as the result of concerns from software vendors. One of these is desktop search; users will be able to change the default desktop search program to one provided by a third party instead of the Microsoft desktop search program that comes with Windows Vista, and desktop search programs will be able to seamlessly tie in their services into the operating system.

These changes come in part due to complaints from Google, whose Google Desktop Search application was hindered by the presence of Vista's built-in desktop search. In June 2007, Google claimed that the changes being introduced for Service Pack 1 "are a step in the right direction, but they should be improved further to give consumers greater access to alternate desktop search providers."

The other area of note is a set of new security APIs being introduced for the benefit of antivirus software that currently relies on the unsupported practice of patching the kernel. An update to DirectX 10, named DirectX 10.1, makes mandatory several features which were previously optional in Direct3D 10 hardware. Graphics cards will be required to support DirectX 10.1. Service Pack 1 includes a kernel (6001) that matches the version shipped with Windows Server 2008.

The Group Policy Management Console is being replaced by the Group Policy Object Editor. An updated downloadable version of the Group Policy Management Console is planned for release in the same time frame as the release of the service pack.

all the hotfixes so far:

925255 - Power consumption increases when you run a WPF-based program that runs an animation in Windows Vista 925528 - Reliability update for the USB stack in Windows Vista 925920 - MS07-017: Vulnerability in GDI could allow remote code execution 927084 - Error message when you try to watch live TV in Windows Media Center on a Windows Vista-based computer: "Restricted Content - Display Driver" 927341 - The Manage Discs feature in Windows Media Center stops responding after you resume Windows Vista from sleep or hibernation 927546 - You see only four available wireless network connections when you use a USB-based wireless network adapter in Windows XP or in Windows Vista 928089 - The computer may respond very slowly as the Phishing Filter evaluates Web page contents in Internet Explorer 7 928135 - A Windows Vista-based computer stops responding when you resume the computer from hibernation 928188 - Ink programs may not work correctly on a digitizer in Windows Vista 928253 - SATA optical drives are not available after you start a Windows Vista-based computer 929011 - Windows Media Center does not correctly configure a combo TV tuner that supports both ATSC and NTSC signals on a Windows Vista-based computer 929191 - IBM and Lenovo computers may take longer to start Windows Vista than computers from other manufacturers 929427 - The Windows Vista Application Compatibility Update 929451 - A client computer that is running Windows Vista registers an old IP address when the GUID of a network adapter changes 929478 - After you use the Safely Remove Hardware option to remove a built-in optical drive from a portable Windows Vista-based computer, you may be unable to reconnect the drive 929550 - When you connect a PCI ExpressCard device to a portable Windows Vista-based computer, the device may not work correctly 929577 - A Bluetooth device may no longer work correctly when you wake a Windows Vista-based computer from sleep 929615 - You may not receive audio in the desired language when you use Windows Media Center to view television in Windows Vista 929685 - A high definition audio device may no longer work after you resume Windows Vista from sleep or from hibernation and then restart the computer 929734 - You may experience problems after you resume a Windows Vista-based computer from sleep or from hibernation 929735 - You may not find the file that you want when you use Advanced Search to search by date and you use a non-Gregorian calendar format in Windows Vista 929761 - When you run Wusa.exe together with the /quiet option to try to install certain software packages on a Windows Vista-based computer, the installation fails 929762 - You receive a Stop 0x9F error when you wake a Windows Vista-based computer that is connected to an IEEE 1394-based device 929763 - Version 5.00 of the Mongolian Baiti font may be displayed incorrectly in Windows Vista 929777 - Error message when you try to install Windows Vista on a computer that uses more than 3 GB of RAM: "STOP 0x0000000A" 929909 - A Windows Vista-based computer that uses a Mobile Intel 945GM Express Chipset may occasionally not wake from sleep 929913 - An error is logged in the Setuperr.log file when you run the "sysprep –reseal" command on a Windows Vista-based computer 930163 - In Windows Vista, you cannot access any resources on a remote VPN server after you switch a network connection from one network adapter to another network adapter and then dial a VPN connection 930193 - Error message when you run the Sysprep command on a Windows Vista-based computer: "A fatal error occurred" 930194 - A computer uses an SiI PATA chip does not recognize an attached optical drive as a drive that supports recording after you install Windows Vista 930261 - You randomly receive a "Stop 0xA" error in Storport.sys when you start Windows Vista 930311 - Occasional error message on a portable Windows Vista-based computer that wakes from sleep to perform network-related tasks: "STOP 0x0000007E" 930495 - An IEEE 1394 device is no longer available when you wake a Windows Vista-based computer from sleep or after you reconnect the device 930517 - Message when a device on a Windows Vista-based computer uses a network bridge to access the network: "Connected with limited access" 930568 - Error message when you try to put a Windows Vista-based computer to sleep or into hibernation: "STOP 0x000000FE BUGCODE_USB_DRIVER" 930570 - Error message in the Usbhub.sys process when you wake a Windows Vista-based computer from sleep or from hibernation: "STOP 0x00000044" 930819 - Windows Image Acquisition imaging software may stop responding in Windows Vista 930857 - An update is available for Windows Error Reporting in Windows Vista to make sure that problem reports are sent only after you have given your permission 930883 - Programs that play audio stop working and duplicate entries appear in the Default Format audio format list in Windows Vista 930955 - Moveuser.exe is incompatible with Windows Vista and is replaced by the new Win32_UserProfile WMI functionality 930917 - An optical disc appears to be blank after you format the disc by using the Live File System component on a Windows Vista-based computer 930979 - You may receive a "Stop 0x0000007E" error message after you enable the BitLocker Drive Encryption feature in Windows Vista 931174 - Update for the Windows Vista Customer Experience Improvement Program 931369 - The Windows Vista installation process may take several hours on a system that uses an ATI SB600 Series chipset 931573 - You may be prompted to activate Windows Vista on a computer on which Windows Vista activation was not previously required 931619 - When you click the Safely Remove Hardware icon in Windows Vista, the device in question may not be removed as expected 931671 - Error message when you put a Windows Vista-based computer to sleep while a PPP connection is active: "STOP 0x0000009F" 931674 - You may be unable to use a WSD-based scanner driver to transfer scanned data in Windows Vista 931675 - Error message when you perform a scan by using a WSD-based scanner driver in Windows Vista: "A problem prevented Windows from saving the settings" 931770 - The copy process may stop responding when you try to copy files from a server on a network to a Windows Vista-based computer 931812 - On a Windows Vista-based computer, the Sony VAIO Camera Capture Utility (VCCU) may not work correctly until you restart it 931936 - Incorrect recording speeds are displayed in the "Recording speed" list in the "Burn to Disc" dialog box when you burn a DVD on a Windows Vista-based computer 931969 - The Microsoft Software License Terms appear in the incorrect language when you try to view them in a program in Windows Vista 932030 - Windows Vista incorrectly detects the miniport edge of PassThru as a WLAN adapter when you use the PassThru Intermediate Driver from the Windows Driver Kit 932079 - Power consumption may be slightly more than expected on a portable Windows Vista-based computer that uses a SATA hard disk that does not support Host-Initiated Link Power Management 932094 - Error message when you try to play a movie file that has an .mov extension by using QuickTime 7 in Windows Vista: "STOP 0x1A MEMORY_MANAGEMENT" 932142 - You cannot install some programs after you restore Windows Vista by using a "Windows Complete PC Backup and Restore Image" 932143 - A hotfix is available for Microsoft Windows Services for UNIX and Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications that addresses the change to daylight saving time in 2007 932246 - March 2007 Windows Vista Application Compatibility Update 932404 - A folder does not open when you click the folder in the All Programs list in Windows Vista 932406 - The Windows desktop may stop updating correctly after a Windows Vista-based computer has been running for a long time 932590 - FIX: Windows-based applications that use the TZ environment variable may not work as expected because of changes to DST 932539 - The screen may go blank when you try to upgrade the video driver on a Windows Vista-based computer 932626 - Various problems may occur after you disconnect a PCMCIA storage device when a Windows Vista-based computer is asleep 932634 - Some elements of the user interface in some preinstalled Swedish versions of Windows Vista contain English text, text that is truncated, or linguistic errors 932635 - Some elements of the user interface in some preinstalled Norwegian versions of Windows Vista contain English text, text that is truncated, or linguistic errors 932636 - Certain elements of the user interface in some preinstalled Danish versions of Windows Vista contain English text, text that is truncated, or linguistic errors 932649 - You may experience poor video quality when you use interlaced mode on a Windows Vista-based computer 932652 - A Windows SideShow-compatible device or the related Gadgets do not work reliably in Windows Vista 932753 - When you resize the Windows Media Center window in Windows Vista, video playback may stop 932814 - You receive an error message that states that a driver was not installed because of a file copy error in Windows Vista 932988 - Files from a Canon EOD 1D or 1DS camera may be corrupted after you use Windows Photo Gallery or Windows Explorer to edit the file metadata in Windows Vista 932998 - Error message during an unattended installation of Windows Vista: "No disk" 933242 - Windows ReadyDrive does not work in Windows Vista if the first partition of a hybrid hard disk drive has less than 32 MB of free space 933245 - A handle leak in Lsm.exe occurs when you play an audio file in Windows Media Player 11 in Windows Vista 933433 - Recording quality is poor when you use a USB microphone on a Windows Vista-based computer that has 4 GB of RAM or more 933468 - You cannot access SMB shares on a corporate network through a Remote Access Service (RAS) connection from a computer that is running Windows Vista 933607 - UMDF User-mode drivers that use the Windows SideShow class extension return errors when you process commands asynchronously 933620 - The operating system stops unexpectedly and you receive a Stop error message after you start the Sony VAIO Camera Capture Utility on a Sony VAIO UX Series Micro PC that is running Windows Vista 933778 - AA program that uses Windows HotStart does not start as quickly as expected after a Windows Vista-based computer wakes up from sleep 933847 - Availability of the Windows Vista Secure Digital (SD) hotfix rollup package 933860 - DFS failover does not occur when a client computer that is running Windows Vista tries to connect to a DFS root server that is unavailable, and you receive an error message: "System error 1214 has occurred" 933872 - The default gateway setting is lost when you wake a Windows Vista-based computer from sleep 934056 - Error message when you try to print a picture from the Search window in Windows Vista: "Windows can't find this picture" 934111 - An update is available for Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications in Windows Vista that addresses daylight saving time changes in 2007 934641 - A Toshiba Device Bay optical drive is not recognized in Windows Vista when you hot swap the drive or when you warm swap the drive