Two New Vista Reliability/Performance Updates

Nick MacKechnie's Weblog - Two new updates for Windows Vista published yesterday

"An update is available that improves the compatibility, reliability, and stability of Windows Vista
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941649

This update resolves some compatibility and reliability issues in Windows Vista.
Cumulative update rollup for USB core components in Windows Vista
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941600
This update resolves some reliability issues in the USB core components on the Windows Vista operating system." [Post leached in full]

An update is available that improves the compatibility, reliability, and stability of Windows Vista

"... This update improves the compatibility, reliability, and stability of Windows Vista. This update includes the following improvements:

It extends the battery life for mobile devices.
It improves the stability of portable computers and of desktop computers that use an uninterruptable power supply (UPS).
It improves the reliability of Windows Vista when you open the menu of a startup application.
It improves the stability of Internet Explorer when you open a Web page.
It improves the stability of wireless network services.
It shortens the startup time of Windows Vista by using a better timing structure.
It shortens the recovery time after Windows Vista experiences a period of inactivity.
It shortens the recovery time when you try to exit the Photos screen saver.
It improves the stability of Windows PowerShell.

This update also resolves the following issues in Windows Vista:

A compatibility issue that affects some third-party antivirus software applications.
A reliability issue that occurs when a Windows Vista-based computer uses certain network driver configurations.

..."

Cumulative update rollup for USB core components in Windows Vista

"...Issues that are fixed in the update rollup

925528 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925528/) Stop errors occur on a Windows-based computer that has 2GB or more of RAM and is using an NVIDIA nForce USB controller
929734 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929734/) You may experience problems after you resume a Windows Vista-based computer from sleep or from hibernation
930568 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/930568/) Error message when you try to put a Windows Vista-based computer to sleep or into hibernation: "STOP 0x000000FE BUGCODE_USB_DRIVER"
929478 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929478/) After you use the Safely Remove Hardware option to remove a built-in optical drive from a portable Windows Vista-based computer, you may be unable to reconnect the drive
930570 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/930570/) Error message in the Usbhub.sys process when you wake a Windows Vista-based computer from sleep or from hibernation: "STOP 0x00000044"
928631 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928631/) A USB device may no longer work correctly after Windows Vista resumes from sleep or from hibernation
933433 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933433/) Recording quality is poor when you use a USB microphone on a Windows Vista-based computer that has 4 GB of RAM or more
933442 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933442/) A USB composite device does not work after you disable and then enable the device in Device Manager on a computer that is running Windows Vista
934633 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934633/) When you connect a USB multifunction printer device to a Windows Vista-based computer, a second instance of the printer object is created, and the first instance no longer works
934796 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934796/) Error message on a Windows Vista-based computer that is running a USB composite device: "STOP 0x000000FE"
933824 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933824/) The Safely Remove Hardware feature and the Windows Explorer "Eject" command do not work correctly with an Apple iPod that is connected to a Windows Vista-based computer
935782 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/935782/) A USB device takes a long time to resume from "selective suspend" mode on a Windows Vista-based computer that uses UHCI USB controllers
935783 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/935783/) When you resume a Windows Vista-based computer from sleep, you may experience unexpected behavior from a USB device
The following issues were not previously documented in a Microsoft Knowledge Base article:

When the computer resumes from a suspend state or from a hibernation state, the computer stops responding. Additionally, you receive a "0x9F" stop message on a blue screen.
The computer takes a long time to resume from a suspend state or from a hibernation state.
The computer takes a long time to resume from a suspend state or from a hibernation state when you use a VIA controller.
The computer stops responding when you use an AuthenTec USB fingerprint reader. Additionally, you receive a "0xFE" Stop error on a blue screen or a "0x9F" Stop error on a blue screen.
The computer stops responding when you use a USB Bluetooth audio device.
The computer takes a long time to resume from a suspend state or from a hibernation state when you use an Enhanced Host Controller Interface (EHCI) controller.
The computer stops responding when you remove a USB device. Additionally, you receive a "0xFE" Stop error on a blue screen.
When a computer resumes from a suspend state or from a hibernation state multiple times, you receive a "0xFE" Stop error on a blue screen.

..."

Now that's a number of updates...

Installing them now (keeping my fingers, toes and eyes crossed that nothing "bad" happens ;)

These were also mentioned by Mary Jo Foley, "Accounted for: The five mystery Vista updates to be added to SP1," as being part of Vista SP1.

Update 10/5/2007 @ 9:50AM PDT:

Be careful with the "An update is available that improves the compatibility, reliability, and stability of Windows Vista" update. You may want to hold off installing it if you have Windows Live OneCare 2.0 Beta installed...

Since I installed it, Windows Live OneCare (2.0 Beta) will not start for me. So now I'm getting totally nagged by Security Alerts.

Uninstalling the update has not helped.

So now I am playing the "get my system working as it was before" game...

Update 10/8/2007 @ 9:55AM PDT:

To close the loop on this...

After a number of uninstalls, reinstalls, reboots, reboots and more reboots this weekend my system is working as expected WITH the above updates AND OneCare 2.0 beta.

So all's well that end's well?
(But I'm afraid to reboot... LOL. But that's one of the things I love about Vista... I rarely have to reboot. Sleep/hibernate works so well now... :)