Comments on: Windows 7 Service Pack 1 Performance Analysis

By: POLARiS

POLARiS — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:09:00 +0000

Actually, I installed SP1 on my 32-bit windows 7 …!
After 3 days, I had to format my system, and install a fresh copy of windows 7 with no SP, that was because my PC got so confused after SP1 installed, it crashed all the time, some applications were showing errors, and system restore was no longer useable …!

I’m working now on 64-bit windows 7 with no SP installed, to tell you the truth, I’m a bit scared of installing it, after what happened the last time, my advice to all 7 users, wait for experts to test and debug SP1 before you install it.

By: davethegeek

davethegeek — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 11:55:00 +0000

my pc with a newly installed win7 is in perfect working order and I think I’d be a fool to tinker with it with this SP1 thing. i have decided to wait and watch for the time being

By: Aasds

Aasds — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 16:25:00 +0000

wow, you really need to get a girlfriend.

By: Coolprash

Coolprash — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 09:49:00 +0000

Win7 sp1 has slowed down my windows startup. it was much faster before, now takes about 30 secs extra.

By: Keith S

Keith S — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 11:40:00 +0000

Thanks for an in depth test. I’m going to give it a try – I’ve waited about a month from release to hear any horror stories. I’ll be back to tell you ONLY if I have any. Wish me luck….

By: anonymous

anonymous — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 15:48:00 +0000

Windows 7 is just like Vista rehashed. Full of gimmicks and fancy tricks. Aero Snap? There’s a far better version in XP called Tile Horizontally or Tile Vertically that isn’t limited to arranging just two windows but any number you select. There are many good useful features of XP removed and broken in Windows 7. The file manager, Windows Explorer was utterly destroyed in Vista and becomes worse in Windows 7. Poor usability. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_features_removed_in_Windows_7 and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_features_removed_in_Windows_Vista . Unnecessary GUI changes. Vista was innonative but horrible usability wise and removed things. Windows 7 is Vista with few new features and again many features removed and fancy gimmicks and shiny graphics added. Sure it’s more secure and XP is also *secure enough*.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 12:14:00 +0000

I installed it like the average person would, via Windows Update. The majority of people out there would use Windows update to install the service pack from, not the ISO.

By: trala

trala — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 11:44:00 +0000

My question would be… did he install from a SP1 integrated ISO or did he install SP1 on top of existing .16385 installations?

By: Niterunner

Niterunner — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 03:31:00 +0000

It runs well! No notice in any speed change at bootup/shutdown. And no change detected what so ever in applications and games. Its a worthy upgrade!

By: Dcdhu81

Dcdhu81 — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 03:10:00 +0000

the drivers and software are not aptimised yet to windows 7 sp1 thats why there is some problems need to wait some time until nvidia, amd and software companies relase new softwares and patches for example pach for far cry 2 etc.

By: GraveDigger27

GraveDigger27 — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 17:26:00 +0000

I was unable to install Windows 7 SP1 successfully on my system as it caused a MAJOR conflict with my iTunes installation – my iPod touch was unable to sync podcasts and new apps (they were shown as not being “signed” in iTunes) and the restore function would fail under Windows 7 SP1 (Home Premium). I reinstalled my pre-SP1 setup and I was able to sync my iPod like before and the restore feature worked fine. After contacting Apple and Microsoft support I was informed that this is a known problem with SP1 and that I should wait until they’ve issued a new patch to go to SP1. I don’t know how many people are having issues with SP1 but I would recommend making a full backup (I prefer disk images) of your system PRIOR to installing SP1.

Better safe than sorry.

By: G4qber

G4qber — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 13:52:00 +0000

finally, please bring back keyboard shortcuts in the
Winkey-Break – System Information – dialogue box.
Vista had them, but in win7 one needs to use TAB or shift-TAB to navigate.

By: G4qber

G4qber — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 13:50:00 +0000

I wish that m’soft would make copying of files a separate process as in XP; which doesn’t cancel unless the user clicks cancel in the copy dialogue box.

in vista & win7
if one uses “close all windows” on the the windows explorer icon, the copy is cancelled
hence I use ShellFolderFix which closes all the windows that are not copy processes.

By: Santa

Santa — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 13:49:00 +0000

How many times did you run each test? Are your results an average of your multiple runs?
I’d be interested in seeing the variance for each test and whether the difference between no SP and SP1 is simply due to the variance.
e.g. for your first PI to 1M test, if you ran the test multiple times and found that the result was 16.8 +- 0.2 then you’d know that SP1 made no difference at all and the result simply fell within the variance.

By: G4qber

G4qber — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 13:45:00 +0000

check out the cancel copy bug that is fixed in SP1.
1. copy a large 4GB file to a USB drive
2. cancel the copy about 30 seconds after start
3. in vista & win7 plain, cancelling the copy takes almost as long as the copy would have taken itself