Microsoft has just released the second service pack for the Windows Vista operating system which can either be downloaded as a standalone package or via Windows Update. The standalone package not only contains the Windows Vista Service Pack 2 but also the second service pack for Windows Server 2008, a combined package so to speak. The size of the 32-bit standalone package is about 302 Megabytes for the five language and 390 Megabytes for the seven language service pack and almost double that amount for the 64-bit standalone package which comes in sizes of 508 and 622 Megabytes.
The size of the Service Pack 2 is considerably smaller when downloaded over Windows Update with all downloads being less than 100 Megabytes in size for all possible editions. Microsoft has created a What’s New article at Technet which details the most notable changes that are introduced in Windows Vista Service Pack 2.
Changes that affect most users are the removal of the halp open outbound TCP connection limit, support for Bluetooth 2.1, improvements to Wi-Fi connections and configurations and the integration of Windows Search 4.0.
The standalone Windows Vista Service Pack 2 can be downloaded from the following pages:
Windows Vista Service Pack 2 5-language (English, French, German, Japanese, or Spanish) standalone pack download
Windows Vista Service Pack 2 5-language DVD ISO download
Windows Vista Service Pack 2 5-language 64-bit download
The all language standalone packages are not available yet, the links are the following for 32-bit and 64-bit
Please follow these links for additional information about the second service pack:
Notable Changes
Release Notes
Hotfixes and Security Update List
via OS News
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I’m too lazy to install it manually, so I’d better wait for windows automatic updates.
Thanks for the heads up. Forgot to monitor its availability.
yo martin ,
taucht dat wat ?
mfg olli
Is anyone else computer slowing down since the installation? It drives me wild, Vista was crap and slow enough already without any more memory being used up…Why can’t they make simpler, less memory heavy programs instead this piece of crap?
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