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The quick and dirty: Explorer file transfer (copy/move) slowness looks to have been fixed (finally), hibernate and sleep now actually work as advertised (at least on my Toshiba R400), and a load of video card support issues have been rolled up. For those of you keeping track, the MD5 hashes on these updates match those that were leaked last week.

KB 938979, aka the "performance and reliability" update, addresses "poor memory management performance," as well as a handful of specific issues, including a nasty problem installing printers when User Account Control is disabled. Also gone is the ever-so-annoying networking flaw that would strike TCP/IP dead after a computer wakes from hibernation, and offline file synchronization is reportedly fixed, according to the release notes.

The big kicker, however, is the "file transfer" problem, which Microsoft describes as follows:

When you copy or move a large file, the "estimated time remaining" takes a long time to be calculated and displayed.

Those of you who have run into this problem know it by its true description: "takes forever just to copy a few hundred megabytes of data!" With the patch installed, file copying is certainly faster in my testing but still doesn't feel as fast as it should be. Nevertheless, it is a major improvement in my opinion.

KB 938194, also known as the "compatibility and reliability" update, should probably be called the "now you can play games with your computer" update. It purports to address a handful of gaming-related problems, including compatibility issues with NVIDIA's G80 series of cards. The lame printer spooling bug that was afflicting many of you has also been addressed.

chitoryu12 wrote:This is why I won't buy Vista until they don't need to release new patches to fix such simple problems (what were sleep and hibernate doing before this patch?).

chitoryu12 wrote:No, it's just that these are problems that could have been solved simply by testing the functions before shipping them out. Do Windows XP, Linux, and Mac have common functions that don't work correctly when released?

Ace Pace wrote:

chitoryu12 wrote:No, it's just that these are problems that could have been solved simply by testing the functions before shipping them out. Do Windows XP, Linux, and Mac have common functions that don't work correctly when released?

*cough* No more then 120GB hard drives. *cough* WinXP release edition. Macs itiratively release, so no, but that comes at the expense of featureitis and price. Linux...THINk for a second. Nevermind that no, alot of USB support, nevermind Wifi, didn't work that well untill recently.

Ace Pace wrote:Macs itiratively release, so no, but that comes at the expense of featureitis and price.

Xisiqomelir wrote:

Ace Pace wrote:Macs itiratively release, so no, but that comes at the expense of featureitis and price.

AFAIK OS X costs less at retail than Pasta Ultimate.

Xisiqomelir wrote:

Ace Pace wrote:Macs itiratively release, so no, but that comes at the expense of featureitis and price.

AFAIK OS X costs less at retail than Pasta Ultimate.

Resinence wrote:

Ace Pace wrote:

chitoryu12 wrote:No, it's just that these are problems that could have been solved simply by testing the functions before shipping them out. Do Windows XP, Linux, and Mac have common functions that don't work correctly when released?

*cough* No more then 120GB hard drives. *cough* WinXP release edition. Macs itiratively release, so no, but that comes at the expense of featureitis and price. Linux...THINk for a second. Nevermind that no, alot of USB support, nevermind Wifi, didn't work that well untill recently.

Don't forget that those with a 965 chipset board can't install most distro's even a year after the chipsets release now, due to problems with ISOLINUX and jmicron raid Yes, I am annoyed.

General Zod wrote:

Xisiqomelir wrote:

Ace Pace wrote:Macs itiratively release, so no, but that comes at the expense of featureitis and price.

AFAIK OS X costs less at retail than Pasta Ultimate.

Apple makes up for it by having much more expensive hardware. Not that I have a clue what "Pasta Ultimate" is, unless this is another retarded nickname for something Microsoft related that makes no sense whatsoever without context.

Uraniun235 wrote:
Odds are good it's a reference to what 4chan has dubbed "copypasta", which if I remember right is the practice of copying and pasting a large block of text and editing key portions of the text, then posting.

Um, Ubuntu fixed that awhile ago, I'm running it on my p965 P5B Deluxe. There are other issues, this isn't one of them.