Microsoft Releases Windows Vista Performance Update

By George Walker | August 11, 2007

I just noticed that a few days ago, apparently Microsoft released a patch to improve performance under Windows Vista. According to Microsoft (via Evilavatar.com) this update will “improve the performance of Windows Vista in certain scenarios.” Okay… that doesn’t say much.

Well, in the MS Knowledge Base article associated with this update, they give a much more detailed list of changes. Honestly, the only resolved issue worth noting for me is, “Poor memory management performance occurs.”

I’ll install it and see how it goes, then update this post if I notice any differences.

Oh, and here is a link to the 64-bit version.

UPDATE: Well, I am seeing a general improvement in the amount of memory that Vista is using. It’s gone from using about 50% of my 2GB of RAM down to about 36% (on average). However, Shadowrun still runs like a turd, so haven’t seen any improvements to any games or anything.