I found that it addressed several little niggly problems I thought I’d have to live with forever. You may also find, as I did, that the service pack makes your system run a little better. By installing it, you’ll ensure that your system is fully up to date and with known security issues fixed. Vista was almost unbearable to use until its first service pack was released and, even then, it still needed major fixing up with later service packs.Īlthough SP1 doesn’t deliver anything exciting, it’s still definitely worth installing. You certainly couldn’t say that about its predecessor. That’s not to say there aren’t problems with Windows 7, but all in all, it’s a solid, reliable operating system. What a welcome change this is! It is proof of how good Windows 7 is and how, from the start, Microsoft got most things right with this operating system. The few major changes it contains will be of interest to network administrators and folk in large companies, but for the rest of us, it’s entirely humdrum. Really there’s very little in here to write home about. But SP1 for Windows 7 is unlike any previous service pack in one significant way: it’s almost a non-event. Usually, I advise people to wait a while before installing a service pack, just in case the service pack delivers its own set of problems. This week, Microsoft rolled out Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Windows 7.Ī service pack is like a giant first-aid kit for an operating system: Microsoft rolls up hundreds of bug fixes, patches and plugs for security holes into a single package, tosses in some new features, and delivers it in a multi-megabyte update.
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