Sonic2k Posted January 12, 2008 Share Posted January 12, 2008 Wonder if MS will release the RC Refresh .exe files to the public as well ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayepecks Posted January 12, 2008 Share Posted January 12, 2008 A question for those of you installing -- did any of you not do a clean install (format and all that)? If so (as in if you just installed it without formatting), are you encountering any errors? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ntadeusz Posted January 12, 2008 Share Posted January 12, 2008 I have, I think, interesting observation. In SP1 Refresh with Ready Boost works faintly. I have Kingston SD Ultimate card and when I use it, the processor consumption is higher than without it. System speed is same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wanderermy Posted January 12, 2008 Share Posted January 12, 2008 (edited) rum smoothly here Edited January 12, 2008 by Wanderermy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CloudEngineer Posted January 12, 2008 Share Posted January 12, 2008 A question for those of you installing -- did any of you not do a clean install (format and all that)? If so (as in if you just installed it without formatting), are you encountering any errors? i just removed the previous RC and installed this one from wu with no problem at all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maximum Error Posted January 12, 2008 Share Posted January 12, 2008 A question for those of you installing -- did any of you not do a clean install (format and all that)? If so (as in if you just installed it without formatting), are you encountering any errors? The whole process for one PC took arround 3 to 4 hours but unistalling it and installing the new one worked fine. No errors. Done on two systems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Caveman Posted January 12, 2008 Share Posted January 12, 2008 Managed to get it installed. Decided not to go the clean install route but instead went through and uninstalled the old version then installed this version. Whole process took 4 hours but surprisingly didnt break anything. Everything seems to be working well but having used the public release for so long now i cant actually see any differences between that one and this 'new' refresh! Anyone else found any differences? Are you for real? .. 4 hours? What exactly took so long? .. uninstall or installing the refresh? I tried to uninstall the old rc but i rebooted the machine after 2 hours thinking it was hung.. after the 2nd stage.. all i see is a black screen for over an hour.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HawkMan Posted January 12, 2008 Share Posted January 12, 2008 I have, I think, interesting observation. In SP1 Refresh with Ready Boost works faintly. I have Kingston SD Ultimate card and when I use it, the processor consumption is higher than without it. System speed is same. USB use the CPU to translate and create the data signals, unlike many other comm ports. So all USB devices in USE will use a certain amount of CPU, with readyboost there is a whole lot of data trafic going on, and the CPU is doing the work for all of this, so readyboost will increase the idle level of the CPU . IDE drives also use the CPU like this, so when doign large copyjobs on older OS' you will probably have noticed how larfge copyjobs slows the system down significantly, GPU acceleration of the GUI helps avoid this though. SCSI disks on the other hand have onboard controllers and don't tax the CPU in this way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ntadeusz Posted January 12, 2008 Share Posted January 12, 2008 USB use the CPU to translate and create the data signals, unlike many other comm ports. So all USB devices in USE will use a certain amount of CPU, with readyboost there is a whole lot of data trafic going on, and the CPU is doing the work for all of this, so readyboost will increase the idle level of the CPU . IDE drives also use the CPU like this, so when doign large copyjobs on older OS' you will probably have noticed how larfge copyjobs slows the system down significantly, GPU acceleration of the GUI helps avoid this though. SCSI disks on the other hand have onboard controllers and don't tax the CPU in this way. Thank you for your explanation, it's clear for me now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayepecks Posted January 12, 2008 Share Posted January 12, 2008 The whole process for one PC took arround 3 to 4 hours but unistalling it and installing the new one worked fine. No errors. Done on two systems. Thanks :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoDEAN Posted January 12, 2008 Share Posted January 12, 2008 Where is the link to the whitepaper on change log? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CloudEngineer Posted January 12, 2008 Share Posted January 12, 2008 The whole process for one PC took arround 3 to 4 hours but unistalling it and installing the new one worked fine. No errors. Done on two systems. curious as to what the specs of your computers are. mine didn't take that long including the time it took to uninstall the previous version and install the new one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SMELTN Posted January 13, 2008 Share Posted January 13, 2008 Beta made public. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;DisplayLang=en Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RubberJabber Posted January 13, 2008 Share Posted January 13, 2008 Took the chance of getting this and installed it. Seems to be working fine and quick. Only problem was installing stage 3 it hung at 100% for about an hour so I just restarted the computer and it then booted to the desktop. Very quick and much more responsive! Great improvement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George P Global Moderator Posted January 13, 2008 Global Moderator Share Posted January 13, 2008 It sounds like SP1 is really good at this point. Looks like moving to Vista with my next PC is getting closer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gxsaurav Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 I m uninstalling the SP1 RC as whether we download via Windows Update or the big stand along exe for SP1 RC refresh, we have to uninstall it, hope to get the full installer soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger H. Veteran Posted January 14, 2008 Veteran Share Posted January 14, 2008 i still didn't get a chance to download the full ISO that's already slipstreamed. I'm running the EXE now and it runs nicely but it just bothers me that i "upgraded" - I always feel like the system could be faster if it was slipstreamed whether that's actually true or not. LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M118LR Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 Just download the Client ISO from Connect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger H. Veteran Posted January 14, 2008 Veteran Share Posted January 14, 2008 i know, i was just saying i haven't had a chance to do that yet... wasn't around any fast connections this weekend... just stopping by hotspots. I will tonight tho :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard A. Posted January 15, 2008 Share Posted January 15, 2008 First post here.... Hiya, I got the option to install this SP 1 RC through my Windows Update module, so I guess M$ is offering it through this route, at least for me they did! In any case it took about 1/2 hour to install all of it and noticed after rebooting twice that I now had full admin rights so I could now move and organize my start menu. I could before but some folders would give me feedback that I didn't have rights to move them. Now, they moved just fine. WOOT! I do have this irritating text in my lower right corner of my screen saying it's an evaluation copy but under the System info says it's an activated version. So that's odd! :huh: Seems faster now for sure as well!! Haven't really dug around too much to see what else is changed or better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ana04 Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 First post here.... Hiya, I got the option to install this SP 1 RC through my Windows Update module, so I guess M$ is offering it through this route, at least for me they did! In any case it took about 1/2 hour to install all of it and noticed after rebooting twice that I now had full admin rights so I could now move and organize my start menu. I could before but some folders would give me feedback that I didn't have rights to move them. Now, they moved just fine. WOOT! I do have this irritating text in my lower right corner of my screen saying it's an evaluation copy but under the System info says it's an activated version. So that's odd! :huh: Seems faster now for sure as well!! Haven't really dug around too much to see what else is changed or better. I guess that evalution copy text there is so that you know it's not finished service pack yet.. Your windows is still activated though.. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hell_Of_Doom Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 Still waiting on final release, can't play with RC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard A. Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 (edited) First post here.... Hiya, I got the option to install this SP 1 RC through my Windows Update module, so I guess M$ is offering it through this route, at least for me they did! In any case it took about 1/2 hour to install all of it and noticed after rebooting twice that I now had full admin rights so I could now move and organize my start menu. I could before but some folders would give me feedback that I didn't have rights to move them. Now, they moved just fine. WOOT! I do have this irritating text in my lower right corner of my screen saying it's an evaluation copy but under the System info says it's an activated version. So that's odd! :huh: Seems faster now for sure as well!! Haven't really dug around too much to see what else is changed or better. Thanks for the reply. OK< so now I have no Network Magic share file connectivity with my other machine since this installation so I removed the SP1 RC trying to get it back. Didn't work so I've uninstalled Network Magic and will start over but not until I get this issue as resolved as I can get it. I still have this notice that the OS is an evaluation copy and I know I installed some little exe to allow Windows Update to offer this SP1 RC as an update but I can't remember what it's called and if I can get rid of it!! All I know is that I am not getting any other options for updates but this SP1 RC and I don't want to go through that again. I think I will wait for the Final Sp1 to come out. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks much Richard ;-)~ Edited January 21, 2008 by Richard A. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNay Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 ^^I got a french system and used wave 0 . But in order to stop everyone : THIS IS NOT THE RC REFRESH (build version is still .668 ) !! So don't waste your time d/l and installing wave 1. Wave0 has 5 or 6 languages, french is one of them as its one of the most widely used languages in the world :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waruikoohii Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 IDE drives also use the CPU like this, so when doign large copyjobs on older OS' you will probably have noticed how larfge copyjobs slows the system down significantly, GPU acceleration of the GUI helps avoid this though. SCSI disks on the other hand have onboard controllers and don't tax the CPU in this way. This was only true for the PIO modes, which are now fallback modes. DMA uses a negligible amount of the CPU (a few percent). Not enough to have any affect on performance. The GPU doesn't really factor into it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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