Two days ago I did the unthinkable. I installed Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista, and it had been out for less than a week. I have a Lenovo X61 Tablet the specs on my machine are as follows:

Core 2 Duo 1.6ghz L7500
4.0 GB Ram
160 GB Hard Drive
Intel X3100 Video
Bluetooth
Blah blah blah

First off the installation went flawlessly. Second, it shows the true mark of a successful update, I noticed nothing, at first. I had started the installer, checked the box to restart automatically and then went off to my Chinese (Mandarin) class. After going to a night market I went straight home (I actually bought some blank DVD’s in case I needed to do a re-install haha). When I got home my computer was waiting for me to put in my password. So I did, and then left and came back.

Since my computer has one of the low voltage power saving CPU’s it is kind of sluggish at startup. Usually it takes a good 3 minutes before the desktop is available in any useable way with vista. Now with SP2 it takes about half of that time. That is a huge positive change in performance. Also I have more hard drive space after installing SP2. I don’t know the exact change because I was not expecting this to happen. But I think SP2 somehow freed up about 10 gigs of space on my computer. After browsing around the interwebs I found the reason.” Vista SP2 includes a command-line cleanup tool (compcln.exe) you can run to remove older system files and restore points, thus freeing up hard disk space.” That is pulled directly from this article. It seems that SP2 automatically runs this utility during install and frees up loads of space! Who knew! But Microsoft has not yet made a statement about these increases in free hard drive space so we shall see. Hopefully I didn’t lose anything important!

Supposedly there are some other improvements that I have not experienced. First, now Windows Vista supports burning Blue Ray discs. So now you don’t have to use that stupid 3rd party software haha. Hmm I think I will stick with Nero when I want to burn something. And second, it supposedly fixes that annoying problem of being disconnected from wireless networks when you come back from sleep. I never use sleep, and I am not interested enough to test it, but if that is true then that’s just wonderful

That’s all dudes and dudettes. I’m out!

Fine print below!

This post only contains my personal experience with Windows Vista SP2 I take no responsibility if you install it and your computer explodes or breaks in any way shape or form. Thank you.

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