Hotpatching makes welcome appearance in Vista SP1 RC

jmke · 17th December 2007, 12:41

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.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post...vista-sp1.html

jmke · 17th December 2007, 12:42

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

18th December 2007, 22:20

Quote:

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...

17th December 2007, 12:41	#1
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,021	Hotpatching makes welcome appearance in Vista SP1 RC 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. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post...vista-sp1.html __________________

17th December 2007, 12:42	#2
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,021	So that's 1 reason to upgrade vs 100 to keep XP __________________

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