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I tried XP SP betas and Vista SP betas. I'm passing the 7 SP beta up. My reasons:
1) Traditionally, it's complicated to upgrade to the final SP, requiring an uninstall of the beta SP first.
2) This Service Pack has nothing I'm interested in. All changelogs I found had nothing interesting on them except RemoteFX. While that in itself sounds very useful as RDP is very slow and near-useless for me over an Internet connection with slow upload (IE: pretty much all "broadband" consumer ISPs. I get 32kbyte/s upload, hooray.), since the server side isn't for 7 I can't use it anyway!
Sure! I see the beta stamp as a sign of quality.
Have a I tried it? No. Am I going to? No. My Windows 7 systems have nothing to gain by running beta-quality service packs (and frankly run PERFECTLY already... seriously, great job Windows team), and nobody in their right mind would run a beta service pack on a production server! I might install it on a test server just to test out RemoteFX, but it's not a priority for me right now.
I tried but it's failing at stage 3 of 3 (99%) complete (see social.technet.microsoft.com/.../773f3c54-9637-4d2b-aad4-e54b71e99e73) so I had to try it in a VM but I see no Windows Explorer issues and bugs fixed (en.wikipedia.org/.../List_of_features_removed_in_Windows_7 and en.wikipedia.org/.../List_of_features_removed_in_Windows_Vista) so it's sort of worthless now. Even small bugs like Explorer not remembering toolbar positions and forcing each toolbar on a new row or the annoying Auto-sorting-can't-be-turned-off problem aren't being addressed. There are thousands of users dissatisfied with the way Explorer auto sorts/auto arranges files and that I the very least I expected Microsoft to address in SP1. I don't want Explorer to be sorting files the moment I paste or rename them and I want to be able to arrange them freely (no Auto *Arrange*) Some of my friends won't even touch Windows 7 as long as it forces auto sort/auto refresh and auto arrange.
I hope It does the following
1. Gives the option to easily turn off network thumbs.db
2. Saves folder arrangement
3. Fixes remote desktop double load on connecting
4. Fixes remote desktop not refreshing
5. Fixes remote desktop icon text not rendering correctly
6. Fix Explorer.exe so it can not crash from third party components.
7. Stop Explorer.exe from locking files
8. Close media player when you close it
9. when finished playing a video with media player, unlock the file, so i can delete / move / rename it
10. If a window opens, and is not on any screen, place it on the main screen.
11. Clear all recent, per-application
12. Option to place new explorer window next to the last opened explorer window, instead of on top of it.
13. A file operations manager, instead of a million copy / move / delete dialogs in the middle of what i am trying to do. also some things such a DVDs, should queue up file operations for best performance. Ever seen Firefox, all its file operations are in one window.
14. A Video card test (My Nvidia 295 BSOD in Notepad++ file compare plugin. why is it a Windows bug, or Nvidia bug)
15. A main board test
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The Auto sorting issue itself has been mentioned a dozen times in various threads on Microsoft's forums but this particular thread itself: social.answers.microsoft.com/.../960fadd4-c348-4aed-9ee0-c565884787eb has 360 people asking to get it fixed and 13000 views.
Ok. Is there a list of fixes [KBs] available somewhere?
Auto sorting is awesome, it does need a touch up to work better though. And maybe have a turn off option for the people that don't like to much change.