As per the patch cycle, Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is now available for download.

For those that want links, here are the "five-language" version that is the small version for those that don't want every exotic language. (KB936330)

32bit: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... layLang=en (434.5 MB)
64bit: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... layLang=en (726.5 MB)

Please note that you need about an hour for installation time, so not something to do in the last 5 minutes before wanting to shut down your PC. Also, first boot after installation is complete is quite laggy, however this isn't new and a restart should clean things nicely .

Ah, I'll have to do that during the weekend, or something. I wonder why the 64bit is so much bigger, more 64bit features?

No, because 64bit has 32bit in it as well for compatibility, so you'll be updating your 32 bit and your 64bit dlls if you have 64bit.

Ah, so it basically has to update twice as much. Seems like a silly way of doing compatibility to me.

Proof that Windows 64-bit sucks. It still uses WoW.

World Of Warcraft?! O.o

Will all new computers within like the next month come with SP1 re-installed? O will it take longer than that?

Licences went out last month, its whenever the old installations are sold.

WoW is Windows on Windows. WoW made the early 64-bit beta's painfully slow to the point of being really slow. I'm being serious! Boot time was pretty much doubled.

oh so is this why everythings in SYSWOW64

I wondered what WOW was

So it's a Windows emulator in Windows? Or a Virtual machine?

Its a driver hook to allow 32-bit applications to run in a 64-bit environment. Just like running 16-bit code in 32-bit Windows.

It runs windows twice to cope with 64 Bit? What a stupid system :/

Is that what I said? No.

I thought that's what Aaron meant O.o

That's what it sounds like... :/

That's what I thought it was, which it wasn't. It's more like it pretending to be 32bit, if I'm getting this right?

Think of it in a similar way of how XP tries to run 16-bit code.

And I don't actually know how it does that.

TBH I wouldn't think 32bit code would be that hard to run on 64bit by standard. :/

Essentially uses a couple of dlls to parser 32bit instructions into 64bit and vice versa

I'll never understand why they didn't just double the IPC when running 32-bit apps on Vista 64-bit therefore doubling the performance.

vista= uber fail form my game game fram rate used to never drop off from my limisted 60 fps now cant even get it tht high without serious dowgrade in quality

Hmm, RAM hog, perhaps?

nop cpu constantly maxed in game (but it always used to be) and ram as yet hasnt even hit 100% form my telling