The final RTM version of Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 (Service Pack 1) has been leaked to the Internet, even before it’s officially released to the OEM manufacturing partners, which rumored to be from January 18th, who always get the code bits earlier to start integration process. The SP1 is for both Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, and has the build version string number of 6.1.7601.17514.win7sp1_rtm.101119-1850.
"Wave1″ setup installers of the SP1 contains all 36 major languages: Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese-Hong Kong SAR, Chinese-Simplified, Chinese-Taiwan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese-Brazil, Portuguese-Portugal, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, and Ukrainian.
OS : Windows 7 (x86/x64)
Released : January 15, 2010
SP1 mainly contains bug fixes and hotfixes which the number is over 625, and patches causes of BSODs, handle leaks, memory leaks, deadlocks, performance issues, multi-monitor issues, inter-process issues, application compatibility, improvement on virtualization, and Windows 7 graphics platform updates. It does not add major features into the operating system.
From the build string of 7601.17514.101119-1850, it indicates that the Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 SP1 RTM build was compiled and singed on November 19, 2010. The build had been said to be the RTM build when the Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 RC Refresh is leaked. The SP1 is released as KB976932.
Microsoft promises to release the Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 in the first quarter of 2011, but if you can wait, the setup installer of the SP1 for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 has been leaked.
Setup prerequisites
The following conditions are prerequisites for the installation of SP1:
Your
current operating system must be the Release to Manufacturing (RTM)
version of Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 (build 7600).
Languages
In order to make the improvements detailed in this document, various individual files and components have been updated. Also, the language-neutral design of Windows necessitates that the service pack be able to update any possible combination of the basic languages supported by Windows 7 with a single installer, so language files for the 36 basic languages are included in this final standalone installer.
Pictures below describe the installation process (about 1/2 hour).
Windows 7 fresh install
Windows 7 SP1 Installation - 1
Windows 7 SP1 Installation - 2
Windows 7 SP1 Installed
Windows 7 SP1 Installed - 2
A fresh Windows 7 (x86) installation was just upgraded to SP1. Now, let’s see if any updates are available through the online update process.
Windows 7 SP1 cheks for updates
One update available for Windows Defender
The only available update are Windows Defender definitions. We can conclude that SP1 includes all individual system updates published by today.
Changes specific to Windows Server 2008 R2 are available here.
Changes specific to Windows 7 are available here.
When SP1 was installed, i launched Windows 7 Loader 1.9.5. The following pictures illustrate the results of the activation process (click on the pictures to enlarge).
Download Windows 7 (x86) SP1 Final RTM Wave 1 (7601.17514.101119-1850) | 537 MB
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Download Windows 7 (x64) SP1 Final RTM Wave 1 (7601.17514.101119-1850) | 537 MB
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