Windows Vista Service Pack 1 RC (x64) - EXE (Multiple Languages)
mu_windows_vista_service_pack_1_rc_x64_all.exe - 878 MB
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 RC (x86 and x64) - DVD (Multiple Languages)
mu_windows_vista_service_pack_1_rc_x86_x64_all_dvd.iso - 1.39 GB

Windows Vista Service Pack 1 RC (x86) - EXE (English, German, Japanese, French and Spanish Only)
mu_windows_vista_service_pack_1_rc_x86_en_de_ja_fr_es.exe - 436 MB
The installation of the patch makes Sp1 paradox no longer valid, then if you should reapply.

NEW AGGIORMANETO (May 2008): Definitive guide to download and install Windows Vista Service Pack 1 IN ITALIAN

Transforming Windows Vista Vista Italian in English

(Required to view the updated Service Packs)

1. Download the latest English language pack and set the control panel as the default language
2. Open the Registry from Start, type regedit (enter)
3. We try HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SYSTEM \ CurrentControlSet \ Control \ Nls \ Language
   Searching for entries InstallLanguage and default and assign value to both the 0409 corresponding to the English language.
   Then go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SYSTEM \ CurrentControlSet \ Control \ MUI \ UILanguages open sub folders that delete all subfolders except the one where it says "en-US" (thanks to my friend Startac)

To view the 'upgrade Service Pack 1

1. Uninstall any version of Vista Service Pack 1 if previously installed.
2. Download sp1_rc_17036_v652_web_updater.cmd
3. Click the button on sp1_rc_17036_v652_web_updater.cmd awake and "Run as administrator".
4. Restart the PC.
5. Run Windows Update to search for and install the following update
6. KB935509 - v1.005, restart your PC
7. Run Windows Update to search for and install the following update
8. KB937287 - Build 6001.17036 (x86 or x64).
9. Exit Windows Update and get back to try and install the following update
10. KB938371 - v1.018, restart the PC.
11. Wait 10 minutes and goes into Windows Update.
12. Click repeatedly to search for new updates to see appear when Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Beta - Build 6001.17036 (x86 or x64)
13. Install Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Beta - Build 6001.17036 (x86 or x64).

May display a message warning that Service Pack 1 may not be installed correctly if your copy of Windows is not the original RTM, OEM DVD, but it's just a message!

Updating

To update your version of service pack 1 Build 6001.17036 with version Build 6001.17052 (v.668), click here
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Specifications Service Pack1

What's new
If you rely solely on the documentation files in Excel format that students enrolled in the beta program can be downloaded as a reference, it would be very surprised. He undoubtedly knew that Vista was absolutely perfect, but the list of 479 corrections leaves no escape. The SP1 is surely "substantial". Improvements to the system are divided into HotFix and Security in several areas: from multimedia (for example solves the bug that prevented properly disconnect your iPod from iTunes on Vista) to Shell's desktop. Would be impossible to list them all, but it is certainly possible to set some benchmarks on the most important improvements.

1. Desktop Shell: improved system performance on the thumbnail view of files shared. Previously, whenever a user accesses the thumbnail of a file, Vista was to extract and load cached on the thumbnail. Now the system tries first to use the file thumbs.db created any other users with significant savings of time and resources.

2. It improved the speed of copying and extracting compressed files, as well as the system of transferring large amounts of files on the same drive and transfer large files (over 100 megabytes) on the network local hard drive. Speed increased to 30% when copying files had already been incurred during the current session.

3. exFAT: certainly one of the most significant improvements on the file system and then exFAT management units (FAT and FAT32 FAT12/16).
ExFAT essentially has no limitation in reading and then see the files over 4 GB and no longer even formatting the limit to 32 Gigabytes. exFAT also allows greater interoperability between operating systems and devices.

4.File System NTFS is now much more difficult to lose data stored on removable drives formatted NTFS, you can easily try trying to unplug a USB drive on which you are still writing data. When the device is disconnected also closes the window open and will gather the data on next logon

5. FileBackup: the "old" version of Vista does not create backup files EFS (Encrypting File System, a component of the NTFS file system already present in Windows 2000 and later versions of Windows - but not XP Home), now with SP1 installed this is possible and the rescue of the keys is still left to the user's common sense.

6. Defragmentation of individual units: Defrag utility presented on startup to choose which volume to operate thanks to the Select Volumes button ...

so as not to activate the featured drivers not require defragmentation and for which indeed should be avoided at any given time.
If the user has inadvertently interrupted a scheduled defragmentation process under way you can restore it from the point of interruption.

7. Mount Manager (MountMgr): this component is entrusted with the assignment of points assigned to each volume (disk drives and other). Once a letter is assigned a drive from Mount Manager, it is recorded in a separate database in the registry. It happens, however, for example, that if a USB stick has been mapped the first time with a particular letter the next time, when it connected again, try to reuse the same letter. But if a network has been mapped previously occupied by a letter from a USB drive that could not be displayed and be useless (unless you can manually intervene with administrator privileges). The new version of Mount Manager solves this problem and automatically assigns the first USB drive letter available.

8. Microsoft Data Access Component (MDAC) is an improvement that is mainly interested users to migrate applications ADO / OLEDB from x86 to x64 ones: the procedure has now been considerably semplificata.E 'plan to support 64-bit MSDASQL OLEDB over ODBC and OLEDB provider is installed as the default for x86.

9. User Profiles: Moveuser.exe is replaced by the new User Profile WMI Provider that allows in practice to map a local user account as a domain. Network administrators can manage user profiles with a simple script and similarly can change the properties of a profile account. It 'a useful feature if you plan to migrate a group of users from one domain to another.

10 Implemented IMAPI 2.0 is now possible to burn multiple tracks to boot on a single support EFI / UEFI. So from one medium can bootstrap both Windows XP, or Vista.

Implemented 11 (preliminary) support for IEEE 802.11n wireless standard: A Windows Vista user then you can now connect to the operating system a device that uses this standard and have access to a network device. The feature is easily verifiable through the window "Connect to a network." If an access point supports IEEE 802.11a and 802.11n another both refer to the same network name, the network is referred to as type-802.11an "

12. Multihoming: In the documentation all'SP1 this term refers to a machine or device that connects to one or more network through different interfaces (including wireless). After installing SP1 it should be easier to proceed with the DFS network when both options (and wireless) are present, eliminating the possibility of slower links through the interface due to incorrect measurement of speed.

13. BitLocker in Windows Vista only supports encryption of the volume that hosts the OS booting. With SP1 instead of Vista BitLocker features are extended only to the volume of the system but also to those data, according to user preferences. You should always enable BitLocker on the system volume and only then can activate the data protection. Unlock BitLocker volume of the system unlocks the volumes of data.

Other improvements relate to the framework of the diagnostic network, implement support for the domain suffixes in the DHCPv6 protocol and SSTP, to eliminate the limitations on the VPN PPTP and L2TP/IPSec. We did not deliberately treated the dozens of small hotfix on some specific software, like dozens of little bugs fixed system and even made reference to any new drivers implemented. The list will certainly be available with the final version of SP1.