Download Here List of Notable Changes This service pack contains compatibility fixes for many of the drivers Vista users have been having difficulty with, according to Microsoft.

Straight out of the box, file sharing between a Linux PC and a Windows PC generally won’t work. The primary cause is Vista’s lack of NTLM authentication by default. It ships with the newer, more secure NTLMv2 enabled. Samba in Linux, on the other hand, is exactly reversed. It ships with support for the older protocols enabled and v2 disabled.

In certain systems that dual boot Windows Vista and Windows XP, severe data corruption can occur if the Vista installation resides on a SATA device which is accessed from an XP install located on an IDE hard disk. The first hint is often chkdsk popping up when booting Vista and showing a very large number of errors. If left unchecked, this will eventually render the Vista drive non-bootable and produce an error complaining about winload.exe being corrupt.