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:<\/p>\n
Core 2 Duo 1.6ghz L7500
\n4.0 GB Ram
\n160 GB Hard Drive
\nIntel X3100 Video
\nBluetooth
\nBlah blah blah<\/p>\n
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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
Since my computer has one of the low voltage power saving CPU\u2019s 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\u2019t 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.\u201d 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.\u201d That is pulled directly from this<\/a> 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\u2019t lose anything important!<\/p>\n Supposedly there are some other improvements that I have not experienced. First, now Windows Vista supports burning Blue Ray discs. So now you don\u2019t 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\u2019s just wonderful<\/p>\n That\u2019s all dudes and dudettes. I\u2019m out!<\/p>\n Fine print below!<\/p>\n This post only contains my personal experience with Windows Vista\u00a0SP2 I take no responsibility if you install it and your computer explodes or breaks in any way shape or form. Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"amazonpipp_noncename":"","amazon-product-isactive":"","amazon-product-single-asin":"","amazon-product-content-location":"","amazon-product-content-hook-override":"","amazon-product-excerpt-hook-override":"","amazon-product-singular-only":"","amazon-product-amazon-desc":"","amazon-product-show-gallery":"","amazon-product-show-features":"","amazon-product-newwindow":"","amazon-product-show-list-price":"","amazon-product-show-used-price":"","amazon-product-show-saved-amt":"","amazon-product-timestamp":"","amazon-product-new-title":"","amazon-product-use-cartURL":"","amazon_featured_post_meta_key":"","_amazon_featured_alt":"","amazon-product-template":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[27,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rantingjamaican.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rantingjamaican.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rantingjamaican.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rantingjamaican.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rantingjamaican.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rantingjamaican.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rantingjamaican.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rantingjamaican.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rantingjamaican.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}