Improves the SMB Service and TCP protocol components.

Improves the Windows Client Remote File System components such as Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV), DFSN client, Folder Redirection, Offline Files and Folders (CSC), SMB client, Redirected Drive Buffering Subsystem (RDB) and Multiple UNC Provider (MUP).

Basically these hotfixes improve overall performance and system reliability of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 based computer system.Īccording to Microsoft, this hotfix rollup includes following improvements: Its a single pack which contains 90 hotfixes focused on performance and stability which were released after Service Pack 1 (SP1) so you can consider it as Service Pack 2 (kind of) for Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2. Thanks to our reader “ j_veen” for sharing this useful piece of information with us.Īs a part of Patch Tuesday program, Microsoft has released an ultimate collection of hotfixes and updates for Windows 7 SP1 and Server 2008 R2 SP1.

Although this news is a little bit old but as they say better late than never. If these rumors are true and if Microsoft will not release SP2 for Windows 7, then what will existing Windows 7 users do? Because Microsoft has not released or talked about SP2 for Windows 7 yet, so people have started believing this rumor.ĭon’t worry! If you are still using Windows 7, here is something interesting for you. But these are rumors, Microsoft has not officially announced any such news. These Windows iterations are supposed to replace Service Packs for Windows OS. Instead the company will follow faster Windows iterations process such as Windows 8.1, 8.2 and so on. There were rumors that Microsoft has decided to discontinue service packs for Windows OS. Actually there are 100+ new updates and hotfixes which have been released after Service Pack 1 and if a user installs fresh Windows 7 with SP1 in a computer system, he’ll need to waste a lot of Internet connection bandwidth to download and install all these 100+ post SP1 updates. Since then all Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 users are waiting for Service Pack 2 (SP2). It’s been more than 2 years since Microsoft released Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.

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