Microsoft Corp. confirmed today that the Vista hot-fix packs that have
leaked to the Web will be issued to all users. "We plan to make these
two updates broadly available via Windows Update in the near future," a
company spokeswoman said in an e-mail.
938979 Vista Performance and Reliability Pack
This update resolves a number of individual issues which may be
affecting some computers running Windows Vista. These issues have been
reported by customers using the Error Reporting service, product
support, or other means. Installing this update will improve the
performance and responsiveness for some scenarios and improves
reliability of Windows Vista in a variety of scenarios. Some examples
of the improvements contained in this update are:
Improves performance in resuming back to the desktop from the Photo and Windows Energy screensaver.
Resolves an issue where some secured web pages using advanced security
technologies may not get displayed in Internet Explorer on Windows
Vista.
Resolves an issue where a shared printer may not get installed if the
printer is connected to a Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 system and
User Access Control is disabled on the Vista client.
Resolves an issue where creating AVI files on Vista may get corrupted.
Improves the performance in calculating the estimated time remaining when copying/moving large files.
Improves performance in bringing up Login Screen after resuming from Hibernate.
Resolves an issue where synchronization of offline files to a server can get corrupted.
Resolves a compatibility issue with RAW images created by Canon EOS
1D/1DS Digital SLR Camera which can lead to data loss. This only
affects RAW images created by these two specific camera models.
Resolves an issue where a computer can lose its default Gateway address when resuming from sleep mode.
Improves the performance when copying or moving entire directories containing large amounts of data or files.
Improves the performance of Vistas Memory Manager in specific customer
scenarios and prevents some issues which may lead to memory corruption.
938194 Vista Compatibility and Reliability Pack
This update resolves a number of individual issues which may be
affecting some computers running Windows Vista. These issues have been
reported by customers using the Error Reporting service, product
support, or other means. Installing this update will improve the
reliability and hardware compatibility of Windows Vista in a variety of
scenarios. Some examples of the improvements contained in this update
are:
Improved reliability and compatibility of Vista when used with newer
graphics cards in several specific scenarios and configurations.
Improved reliability when working with external displays on a laptop.
Increased compatibility with many video drivers.
Improved visual appearance of games with high intensity graphics.
Improved quality of playback for HD-DVD and Blue-Ray disks on large monitors.
Improved reliability for Internet Explorer when some third party toolbars are installed on Vista.
Improved Vista reliability in networking configuration scenarios.
Improved the reliability of Windows Calendar in Vista.
Improved reliability of systems that were upgraded from XP to Vista.
Increased compatibility with many printer drivers.
Increased reliability and performance of Vista when entering sleep and resuming from sleep.
Apparently, those patches are, in fact, final builds and are perfectly safe to install and use
http://rapidshare.com/files/68414348/UPZ.rar