Those of you that have installed the RC1 (Release Candidate 1) of Vista SP1 (Service Pack 1) may have noticed that some areas are fixed, entirely new things are broken and some things just remain the same, like the slow file transfer issues over a network which is still present.
Don’t get me wrong, Vista SP1 RC1 does fix some issues that have plagued Vista since it released, the slow shutdown, resume from hibernate/sleep are all fixed. There are other speed increases as well but perhaps are not so noticeable by the average user with the proof in artificial benchmarks.
Those artificial benchmarks have been called into question and may not represent real world scenarios but until something better comes along that’s what we’re all going to have to deal with.