I do wish to thank Microsoft for their efforts in putting out SP1 RTM and
wish to say good things about them.
However I must say I felt shock to see the behaviour of my 2 weeks old HP
DV2522tx Notebook yesterday after having SP1 installed on Genuine Vista Home
Premium English.
The Notebook has 4Gb RAM and 250Gb SATA Harddisk. I left it on running for
several days on top of a cooling pad fan to avoid any overheating. There was
basically no activity or nothing running except BitTorrent downloading some
files over wireless LAN. I have Avast antivirus installed. All possible
drivers updates/service packs were downloaded and installed. The notebook
runs on the latest BIOS version from HP.
Suddenly, the computer beeped loudly a few times and the screen showed white
colour patches everywhere that covered up a large portion of the screen, then
got frozen completely. The only thing I could do was to switch it off by
pressing the power button 6 seconds. After booting it up again, I couldn't
see much information in the event viewer that tells me what went wrong.
Another horror story: I had a few tabs opened on IE7. I went to a website
with java applet for chat room. Once I clicked the Java applet, IE7 suddenly
crashed/disappeared. No error reporting or anything - it just took place so
suddenly. I could not repeat this problem as it seems intermittent.
It does make me feel that after a year's wait, I still have no faith in
Windows' reliability. I wonder how many more centuries will they take to
create a rock solid high performing computer for home/business?