Vista SP1 released to manufacturing

[JohnnyMalaria]

"Microsoft is excited to announce the February 4th release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) to manufacturing for English, French, German, Spanish, and Japanese."

Source: email to all Microsoft Certified Partners today.

[hudsonf]

Supposed to be available for download in March.

[redwudz]

I've been running the beta version for about a month with no problems. I'm not sure what it fixes, but it didn't cause any problems.

[guns1inger]

Hoping for fixes to wireless networking on secure corporate level networks, better wireless discovery in general, and better handling of off network windows updates when running a private WSUS server.

The rest of the issues I have had have all been down to crap quality third party drivers.

[pchan]

I can never get WPA to work with my wireless AP. No problem with XP. Have to downgrade to WEP.

I find this Vista tweak guide from PCSTATS useful.
http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=2238

[redwudz]

Thanks for that link, pchan. Looks interesting. I did install TweakUAC in 'quiet mode' to tone down the system warnings. http://www.tweak-uac.com/what-is-tweak-uac/ I'm the only one that uses the computers and I am logged in as administrator, so they seem useless to me.

Probably my one complaint that I can't find a 'fix' for is the white backgrounds on folders and system pages. I like the background a bit more 'toned down', but that doesn't seem possible with the Aero interface.