Windows 7 SP1 Released, Available for Download

Would be more impressed if it wasn't 90% collection of updated into 1 install. Still I have had very little issues with 7x64 so perhaps the fact its mostly a collection is a good thing.

Yay, I am reinstalling Win 7 on my new HDD today, so I can start with this.

i shall install it the moment i get home

Had this since last month already

You do realize that this update is required in order to use AVX instructions. That's a pretty big deal.

Already upgraded, after reboot I BSoD'ed. But hit start windows normally to give it another try and it worked. Took awhile for it to apply 80k update operations on startup though.

The other 3 workstations went off without a hitch. I do not like that you have to select SP1 manually though..

The Remote FX update is nice, I can watch 480p h.264 no lag, 720p h.264 with alot of action starts slowing down, While I dont watch through video RDP, Its a nice upgrade. I wish it applied to my W7 Clients too.

I have used the beta for a while not a huge improvement.

Im not seeing it, nor did my father computer did either.

@jprahman

Most people dont have a sandy bridge CPU yet, so its not a pretty big deal to the masses.

I personally wont bother upgrading right now...I got almost all of those updates already.

Go to Microsoft Downloads & search there. In my experience it takes a week or two before hitting the automatic "Windows Updates".

I've been running since the 16th without issues, so no issue on my part.

I hope Tom's does an analysis of the update. Even if it's mostly old updates, SP1 is still a milestone. I think most enthusiasts would still appreciate a clear assessment.

On a side note, I wonder how long until we see the AVX extensions in applications, and how much an effect they will have. I can't imagine it making a huge difference.

Every Service Pack is mostly that. In fact its normally SP2 that adds a few more new things. But still this will include some reliability upgrades and one guy at work said it cut a few seconds off of his boot time so maybe it will help a bit.

I am downloading it right now, its only 88.7MB on Windows Updates. But then again I install every update the day its out.

Is this a beta or the full thing?

Would you mind explaining why is that a big deal? Like, what does it help?

More of an improvement for Server 2008 R2 with the Hyper-V improvements. Now it's closer to what VMWare has supported for a long time

Service Pack releases aren't as exciting as they used to be. During the XP era and before they would actually present a noticeable difference in functionality. I remember when technicians would bad mouth XP SP2 and now they look back and realize that it wasn't so bad after all Hooray for progress I suppose.

Tried to update my 64 bit system today. Downloaded and failed. I think I'll wait a few more days.

Failed, tried again. tells you to restart to finish, freeze restarting. hit reset(had to look for the button. never used it on that computer) and it finished it self. so i guess its all good.

Well AVX is a new instruction set that Sandy Bridge processors support as well as the upcoming Bulldozer CPUs. Basically AVX lets you perform as many as 8 floating point mathematical operations per instruction, which can give some pretty significant speed improvements to programs that use AVX. However, programs must be specially programmed to use it and even then only certain types of problems like audio, video and photo processing, CAD, 3D games, and other math intensive programs can.

Currently few programs support AVX, but part of that is because before this service pack came out AVX couldn't be used because the Windows 7 didn't correctly save the CPU state when switching between threads.

When it's released it's available straight away on Windows Update (not ticked by default), 64bit is about 850mb via windows update or 927mb via download from Microsoft Download Centre.

Downloading it now, will see how it goes.

So that was pretty quick. I'm assuming when you update through windows update in win 7, it customizes it and only downloads what you need. The total file size for my install was around 88MB.

Windows 7 SP1 has been out since jan 15th. nothing diff other then this is the "official release".

Thanks for heads up.I have to deploy this on a couple of systems located in another city.Saves me some time.

If you are up to date with everything it was only 83MB download for Win 7 Ultimate 64-bit.

I think its the full thing.

It's finally out,this windows 7 SP1 & I will not be downloading it...Although I will be bumping up a new computer that I will be making soon & I intend to use windows XP Pro SP2 x32 bit retail boxed edition on a Gigabyte H55 board with a core i5 680...That will be used to replace this one that is not mine,but a borrowed pc to go onto sites like these & others...

Ah, OK. It's like AltiVec... a decade later.

To Twist86...Maybe I should try windows 7 x64 instead...If you did not have that many issue's then maybe it is for me also,but I will see if I can afford another computer first since I am bumping up another XP based pc within a week first...

To HangFireW8...I thought that all those instructions where built into the operating systems & where not added to by downloading updates...

You people are retarded. AVX does NOT depend on the APPLICATION. It depends on the COMPILER (mostly the linker, at least that's where I'd do it).