Comments on: Improve Vista Performance and Reliability with KB938979 Performance Update

By: Download KB938194 and KB938979 Vista Updates with No WGA Validation » My Digital Life

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:50:42 +0000

[...] testing codes rushed to production to beat deadline. KB938194 Vista Reliability Update and KB938979 Performance Update fixes and patches various bugs, hardware drivers incompatibility, instability, unreliability, [...]

By: Azzer

Azzer — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 01:56:03 +0000

While certain recent Windows updates have disabled the “BCDEDIT /SET LOADOPTIONS DDISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS” option (or possibly just introduced further security on top)… you can still use patched drivers (eg tcpip.sys for the connection limit) with the Windows updates… though some of you may find it a slight annoyance. If you tap F8 during Windows bootup, to get to the boot menu (where you would select normal mode, safe mode etc.), there is a (new?) option at the bottom of this menu “DISABLE DRIVER SIGNATURE ENFORCEMENT” (or words to that effect). Select this, and for this boot only there is no driver signature enforcement and everything will work fine - all vista windows updates and a patched tcpip.sys file (or whatever else you have patched). You will however need to do this every boot, and there is currently no (known) way to enforce this automatically at bootup. Either way, I hope this temporary solution works until either Microsoft gives control of the operating system back to the user, or the user snatches that control by force with a new method. Enjoy!

By: Mephistopheles

Mephistopheles — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 07:26:43 +0000

Though I had my doubts, it appears that this update is indeed safe to install for those of us with the 2099 crack (at least on 32-bit Vista). I had heard rumors to the contrary, and even went so far as to make a ghost image of my drive before applying the update, but it seems that my fears were, in the end, unwarranted.

By: Atom

Atom — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 13:23:56 +0000

Hi All,

After I installed this KB938979 hotfix for my Vista Home Basic system - I’m not able to install/update any DeviceDriver into my system. It always fails like - “Faulting application DrvInst.exe, version 6.0.6000.16386, time stamp 0×4549ad51, faulting module USER32.dll, version 6.0.6000.16386, time stamp 0×4549bdc9, exception code 0xc0000142, fault offset 0×00008fc7, process id 0xe1c, application start time 0×01c7f3cf53b2da1c.”

This error is always happening even for all those live updates that tries to update existing drivers. Also at the time of installing any new driver.

Please help. I was trying to uninstall this particular hotfix but uninstall for this hotfix was not working too (unstall statred and just got hang up for ever, if I rebbot the system the hotfix comes back).

Please some one help me.

Thanks,
Atom

By: blank

blank — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 05:33:14 +0000

After installing both the Performance and Compatibility updates, my Vista started to stuff up quite frequently: explorer randomly crashes, WMP 11 takes long (longer than usual for me) to display song list on initial startup, sometimes folders in my hard drives take a while to display, etc. I dont know if it is directly related to these updates, but it sure started happening arounf the same time. Has anyone else experience these problems.

By: Slow File and Folder Copy, Move, Transfer or Delete Operation Speed Problem in Vista Fix » My Digital Life

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 09:37:17 +0000

[...] a long time to be calculated and displayed. Other than calculating estimated time remaining bug, KB 938979 update also addresses many other speed issues in Vista and worth installing to improve Vista [...]

By: Fix Vista Unable to Rename or Move Files and Folders Issues After Applying KB938979 Patch » My Digital Life

Fri, 17 Aug 2007 17:30:29 +0000

[...] KB938979 Vista Performance Update intends to improve performance and reliability of Windows Vista system, however, some users [...]

By: Pavel

Pavel — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 07:21:42 +0000

but the VistaLoader 2.1.2 is affected by this patch

By: Workaround for Vista Cannot Load Low Level Driver Signing Issue » My Digital Life

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 02:52:11 +0000

[...] of the side effect of installing KB938979 Vista Performance and Compatibility Pack in order to improve the performance and stability of Windows Vista is that it breaks the ability to [...]

By: Swiss

Swiss — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:32:05 +0000

With this KB938979 installed I have my two readers of DVD Plextor

Plextor DVDR PX-760A ATA Device
Plextor DVD-ROM PX-130A ATA Device

which are not recognized any more by my Vista Ultimate x64!

If I it uninstall they are again visible and usable !

Do you have the same problem and have you a solution? Help

Sorry for my bad english

By: admin

admin — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 07:41:38 +0000

Hi morphly, thanks, will update the article with your comment.

By: morphly

morphly — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 07:16:12 +0000

FYI if you have a patched tcpip.sys and Vista X64 your network will fail to start after you apply this Update. This is due to further code signing restrictions introduced with this update.

By: Improve Compatibility and Reliability of Vista with KB938194 Reliability Update » My Digital Life

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:12:29 +0000

[...] than KB93897 Vista Performance Update, Microsoft also releases another hotfix Vista Reliability and Compatibility Update KB 938194. [...]