Users hoping to receive a speed boost from Vista SP1 will be 'disappointed', according to some researchers
Researchers blast Vista Service Pack 1
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21 Nov 2007, Shaun Nichols , V3
A group of researchers has described Microsoft's upcoming Windows Vista Service Pack 1 as a "performance dud".
Researchers from the EXO Performance Network claimed that a series of in-house benchmark tests showed that users hoping to receive a speed boost from the update will be disappointed.
"After extensive testing of Release To Manufacture and SP1-patched versions of Vista it seems clear that the hoped-for performance fixes that Microsoft has been hinting at have not materialised," the group said in a company blog.
The tests were run using tools from Devil Mountain Software, which also hosts the group's site. The researchers used a Dell notebook with 1GB of Ram for the tests.
The benchmark tests measured performance in Microsoft Office 2007, multitasking and streaming media.
The results from the SP1-patched system were nearly identical to those from the version of Vista released to manufacturers, according to the researchers.
"The thinking goes that SP1 will address all of these early performance issues and somehow bring Vista on par with, or at least closer to, XP in terms of runtime performance," said the report. "Unfortunately, this is simply not the case."
The researchers concluded that users waiting for the update to fix pokey performance will not get any respite in the short term.
"If you have been disappointed with the performance of Windows Vista to date, get used to it," they wrote. "SP1 is simply not the panacea that many predi cted."
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Do you agree?
Vista Speed Enhancement
It may be a subjective judgement but I'm sure my computer running Vista does perform better with all the current patches installed compared to the original installation.
Posted by Jules, 21 Nov 2007
Is This a Vista Security Hole?
I had forgotten my Vista password, and found the following solution:
Place your Vista DVD into DVD drive
Restart your computer
Make the choices that the Vista asks.
Select repair option.
Select Vista installation from the list.
Select open a Command Prompt
Type regedit
Click on HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Click the File menu at the top, and then click Load Hive Click the option on the left to go to "computer"
Double-click on the drive that Vista is installed Double-click on the folder called Windows, then System32, then config.
Click and open file SAM
Type "Target SAM" into the box and click OK Expand the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, expand the Target SAM folder, expand the Domains folder, expand the Accounts folder, expand the Users folder.
Click on the folder named 000001F4
Double-click the item on the right called "F"
You will now see an editor. You will see two columns: a list of letters and numbers grouped in pairs on the left, with a list of symbols on the right.
From the numbers and letters on the left find number "11".
Change this number to 10.
Before:
02,00,01,00,00,00,00,00,80,8c,d7,b2,e9,97,c7,01,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,
00,1f,ea,fd,ad,e9,97,c7,01,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,de,ad,60,9b,e9,97,
c7,01,f4,01,00,00,01,02,00,00,11, ...
After:
02,00,01,00,00,00,00,00,80,8c,d7,b2,e9,97,c7,01,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,
00,1f,ea,fd,ad,e9,97,c7,01,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,de,ad,60,9b,e9,97,
c7,01,f4,01,00,00,01,02,00,00,10, ...
Click OK
Close regedit
When you restart the computer you will find that an account called "Administrator" has been created which gives you total access to the computer.
Posted by John L Aldridge, 21 Nov 2007
Tested and works
Would just like to say i have tested this method and it does indeed work.
Excellent find.
Posted by password research, 04 Mar 2008