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Hotpatching makes welcome appearance in Vista SP1 RC

@ 2007/12/17

Hotpatching is a process in which Windows components are updated while still in use by a running process. As you can imagine, this handy feature eliminates the need to reboot, maximizing system uptime and minimizing user headaches. According to Microsoft, hotpatch-enabled update packages are installed in a similar manner to standard update packages. The company's description of the feature seems to suggest that this ability is inherent to Vista, but was previously disabled or incomplete.

Comment from Kougar @ 2007/12/18

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The company's description of the feature seems to suggest that this ability is inherent to Vista, but was previously disabled or incomplete.

I was going to say it was already supposed to be a feature of the OS... and for the majority of installs and patches it seemed to have been working. Will keep an eye on it...

Comment from jmke @ 2007/12/17

So that's 1 reason to upgrade vs 100 to keep XP

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