Improved Support for Advanced Format (512e) Storage Devices: hard drive manufacturers are transitioning to a new 4KB physical sector size, and now Windows 7 supports this better.Support for Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX): supports a newer processor extension that improves performance for floating point intensive applications.Now they will restore to where they were. Change to behavior of “Restore previous folders at logon” functionality: If you used the “Restore previous folders at logon” feature in Folder Options, the folders would restore into a cascaded set of windows.Corrected behavior when printing mixed-orientation XPS documents: If you’re trying to print XPS documents that have landscape and portrait pages in the same document, now they will print correctly.This is listed as a feature in the release notes, but really feels like a bug fix. Improved HDMI audio device performance: there’s a small update that helps reliability of HDMI audio devices after rebooting.Here’s the quick list of stuff that might maybe matter to you: There’s not a ton of great new stuff in SP1, at least from the perspective of the end user. If you do want to download it directly, you can do so from the Microsoft Download site. There’s also the possibility of problems, so you might want to wait. There’s very little in terms of new features, and you’d be better off waiting until the download rush is over. Not unless you’re bored or you haven’t run updates in a long time.
Should I Drop Everything and Install it Today?.Your best bet is to start the install and then walk away for a while.
The installation time isn’t terribly long, about 30 minutes, but depending on your internet connection, it’ll take quite a while to download. If you have Windows Update set to automatic, the service pack will not make you more secure. If you haven’t installed anything off Windows Update in a while, first, shame on you! It’s important to keep yourself updated! Also, this release is essentially a big fat roundup of all the security fixes and bugfixes since Windows 7 was released, combined with a few extra bits of functionality. It’s an optional update (at this point) in Windows Update, so you’ll only get it if you choose to install it.
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