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Absolutely! And thank you for the kind words about my YouTube videos. Unfortunately I haven't made another one in a while due to being so busy IRL, but I'll try to make another one soon. I will certainly make one on your kernel extension project for Vista in the future, too. Speaking of getting programs working, I have one that you may be interested in trying: After growing up with the widely-beloved original console game from 2003, I decided to purchase the newly released SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom Rehydrated on Steam. To my dismay (but not to my surprise), it will not run in Windows Vista due to several missing functions. It apparently works with Windows 7 or later according to the Steam page (Win7/8.1 support is claimed in the Additional Notes section), but at least two of these functions are exclusive to Windows 8 or later, so unless these are simply delay load functions that don't prevent the game from running in Windows 7 (I have yet to test it on that OS), then the game will only run in Windows 8 or later. After inspecting the game's executable with Dependency Walker, I came up with this list of missing functions in some DLLs within Windows Vista. Here is a list of missing functions (I know you've already integrated some of these): KERNEL32.DLL missing functions: GetCurrentPackageId GetSystemTimePreciseAsFileTime K32EnumProcessModules K32GetProcessMemoryInfo SetThreadErrorMode TryAcquireSRWLockExclusive USER32.DLL missing functions: CloseTouchInputHandle GetTouchInputInfo RegisterTouchWindow MF.DLL missing functions: MFCreateDeviceSource MFEnumDeviceSources MFPLAT.DLL missing functions: MFCreateDXGIDeviceManager MFCreateDXGISurfaceBuffer MFCreateMFByteStreamOnStream MFCreateSourceResolver MFPutWaitingWorkItem

Well, y'all who know me know full well I've never used Vista. But I do use 7 SP1 and I am a XP SP3 die-hard. On XP, MSE still works with no nags, but cannot use any AV definition file later than 1.293.2807.0, because all later AV definition files require an Engine version > 1.1.15800.1 and those engines require functions not supported by XP. OTOH, because of using it on XP, I've kept one of my 7 SP1 (x86) machines running MSE 4.4.304.0, and it remains updating normally and working OK up to now. Of course, to do so, it uses the latest available Engine version and AV definition files seamlessly. Today, however, it dawned on me the same may still happen on Vista, too... and maybe it can even auto-update. But even if not, it sure can be updated by hand, provided the latest available Engine version's requirementes are met by Vista. Is it actually possible to keep using MSE 4.4.304.0 on Vista? I don't really know, but perhaps somebody among you may be interested in testing it. Below is an image of it running on 7 SP1 x86 (no I don't use x64, so I didn't test on it) as of today. HTH.

RLoew's products are compatible with smartdrive.exe and never were tested with xhdd.sys, but the recommendation is to use neither, because they're bypassed, anyway, by the protected mode 32-disk access. You can use... ... and forget about them. Himemx is a time-bomb when used with 9x/ME, because it prevents Windows from taking control of the XMS administration. There's more info by RLoew himself about that in one of the posts linked from the 1st post of my thread on > 2 GiB RAM. tl;dr: use himem.sys and forget about it.

The driver you need is then the via v-raid software package v6.10c.zip http://download.viatech.com/en/support/driversSelect.jsp From its VIAMRAID.inf: [VIA] %PCI\VEN_1106&DEV_3349.DeviceDesc% = VIAMRAID , PCI\VEN_1106&DEV_3349&CC_0104 %PCI\VEN_1106&DEV_6287.DeviceDesc% = VIAMRAID , PCI\VEN_1106&DEV_6287&CC_0106 %PCI\VEN_1106&DEV_0591.DeviceDesc% = VIAMRAID , PCI\VEN_1106&DEV_0591&CC_0104 %PCI\VEN_1106&DEV_3249.DeviceDesc% = VIAMRAID , PCI\VEN_1106&DEV_3249&CC_0104 %PCI\VEN_1106&DEV_3149.DeviceDesc% = VIAMRAID , PCI\VEN_1106&DEV_3149&CC_0104 %PCI\VEN_1106&DEV_3164.DeviceDesc% = VIAMRAID , PCI\VEN_1106&DEV_3164&CC_0104 %PCI\VEN_1106&DEV_0581.DeviceDesc% = VIAMRAID , PCI\VEN_1106&DEV_0581&CC_0104 %PCI\VEN_1106&DEV_7372.DeviceDesc% = VIAMRAID , PCI\VEN_1106&DEV_7372&CC_0104 jaclaz

Your board features a VIA 8237S southbridge. The 8237 family is a family of SATA150/UltraATA133 capable chips, in reality. Reportedly, they can support 150 MB/s full-duplex (if nothing else were using the southbridge at the same time), but I've never seen that happen, so, although they understand SATA300 protocols correctly, not even a Gigabyte i-RAM board (which is SATA150) can reach 150 MB/s full-duplex on any 8237, in my experience, although the GB i-RAM does get near 133 MB/s. That said, 87 GB/s on a SATA300 mechanical HDD (i e: not an SSD nor a hardware RAM-drive) appears to me quite realistic. See also the attached .pdf Via_chipsets_vt8237.pdf

At least on my systems, it was a "recommended" update. Still, ludicrous rating for what it is, completely optional software. You may benefit from verifying that this checkbox is unchecked in Windows Update settings.

Phew... After over an hour, I have finally checked every single link on the list to make sure everything still worked, and fixed quite a few broken ones. I hadn't done this since around 2017, so hopefully all the links should be working now for a while

Well maybe the start would be from getting steam(the new one) working, the workaround way might stop working soon , getting waterfox to run could potentially mean that the new steam also does function. Also i second win32 your videos are pretty good.

That really doesn't seem his style. It's the same thing every time an update breaks aeroglass. Crickets, lots of waiting, People in the forums keep freaking out, asking about an update, demanding bigmuscle address their concerns. He ignores them all. Then a month or two later an update drops. Then a few months later Microsoft breaks it again. Rinse/Repeat. Sure it'd be nice to get faster updates, but I think I'm only in this for $10 at this point. I think I bought $5 license one, used it on 2 pc's. Then I bought a new one and didn't want to wait for 30 days to reuse a deleted key, so paid another $5. I don't feel like he owes me a lot for $10. Especially when i've been using it for years. I tried the only other competition I'm aware of (Windowsblinds) but I didn't like it.

We have absolutely no idea how long it takes. It could take a full week or it could take 12 hours. We have no idea. This is what I mean with speculation. Did he ever share any info regarding what it takes to update? How big of a chance is there even that this can cause bugs? And if a lot of bugs can be there does he have a very solid way of fixing these with some kind of debugging software perhaps? And having an application without bugs is pretty logical yes. I don't see how that changes anything in this particular situation. We still don't know how much testing is actually done each update. Also, the application is not free. If you can pay for it how is it free? Unless you can pay for the application and your payment changes nothing. You would have the exact same feature set with no downsides. That's what we call an donation. This is clearly a trial/demo. Anyway, I appreciate what BigMuscle is doing because I think this isn't an easy task. He is probably doing this for himself and a small group of people. At least I think so. Like I said, I'm speculating just as much as all of you. I just wanted to get this off my chest. I understand most of the people present on this section of the forum will probably disagree with me or think I don't appreciate what he has created. There is no need for me to make everyone uncomfortable (hopefully I didn't) for a long period of time with replies going back and forth. I really don't want that. The world is already in a full epidemic at the moment. So I just wanted to share what I think, considering this thread was somewhat steering towards the topic. So yeah, be safe and sorry for waltzing in here with my skepticism. I'm just a user like all of you and I can be a bit harsh with what I say. Good day everyone! EDIT: Thinking about it a bit more, I think I might've been a bit too harsh/distrustful. See it as simple food for thought for now, or something. I'm probably overthinking things.

I personally do think it's weird that the moment I purchased a premium license for this software it was already out of date. Since I knew about AeroGlass it has been out of date. I'm "freaking out" because it does take him so long to update a paid product. I could only use it for some time because I had 1903. You can call it donating but we all know it isn't. The "free" version (trial) is a stripped down version. You need to pay to unlock all it's features and for most make it a viable option to use daily. Having fancy glass windows while having an ugly (Opinion of mine but also a lot of others) watermark on your desktop is for most not really a win. And that's very done on purpose. Cosmetic micro transactions in games also influence the game by a very large portion. It doesn't influence the gameplay with stats but it does influence the game itself. Cosmetics and making something look good is for a lot of people more important than functionality. Hence why cosmetics in those games are so popular. I'm not an id*** though. I know there is Corona epidemic going on and I also know that updating AeroGlass is probably not 10 mins of work. But this is what you get when you're not transparent in what you do. People are going to ask questions. The way AeroGlass is now is beneficial for BigMuscle, not us. He has all the benefits of developing free software with the added benefit of receiving "donations". Which aren't really donations. Most of those donations are really done to get the full version with an added "good feel" effect because you have the impression you're supporting the development of AeroGlass. While in reality, that extra 10 euro you just donated might've absolutely no influence at all. My assumption is is that BigMuscle will likely stop updating this once it takes too much of his time, the donations aren't high enough and people are generally not that interested anymore. But that 10 euro I mentioned might've not changed that in any shape or form. Even better, not updating AeroGlass for some time is probably beneficial to him. I'm not saying he has ill intend or that he's doing it on purpose but not updating AeroGlass will get people to donate yet again. That's all fine. But then I think he should be transparent in regards to what's up. Tell us SOMETHING. Not be quiet for months and months. Give us an ETA. Keep us up to date in regards to plans or innovations. Maybe you found a way to update AeroGlass quicker? Or maybe you wanna make sure that we know that it will take awhile because you're expecting Windows to release an update soon that might break it yet again? Who knows, I'm not developing this software. Everyone is just guessing at this point and everyone who says they know what BigMuscle is thinking is just speculating. In regards to transparency, listing how much is approximately donated each month, an explanation what exactly needs to be done each update and how much time that costs would already go a long way. Of course combined with some quick communication here and there. For all I know he gets over a €690 each update and it takes him an hour or 2 to get it working for the latest version of Windows because he's got it all set up now and optimized for quick successful updates. In terms of optimizing the updating of software, there is a lot you can do. Of course, the €690 isn't based on realism, but I hope you understand what I'm trying to say. Or maybe he indeed only needs about 3-4 hours for each minor update, and 7 for major updates? Or maybe minor or major updates don't matter in terms of time? Or maybe he's just very busy with his 6 jobs? Who knows. The things I mentioned above would take about 10 mins. Quick communication in regards to what's up, how much was donated last month and a quick explanation what needs to be done if an update needs to be released for AeroGlass and the complications some things might bring to updating the software.

I think that this thread should be expanded to cover all kinds of peripherals. For example, I bought an EasyCAP SM-USB 007 composite video capture device to capture VHS content. It seems to be quite popular as it's sold on Amazon for a very low price. The drivers on the included CD are only for XP x86 and Vista x64 and up. But a small inf mod is all that is needed to get it working in Windows 2000 (and XP x64), to capture with something like VLC 3.0.x. Please note that the drivers from shady sites do not work for this purpose. Now back to printers. When we got an HP DeskJet 3632 a year ago, I was surprised to see that XP was still supported. Now it's no wonder that HP printers continue to work with such legacy OSes since apparently not much has changed between 1998, when the LaserJet 8500PS came out, and now. So theoretically you could you use Windows 3.0/3.1, which also have 8500PS drivers, to print with your new printer! I tried to test with the DeskJet but couldn't obtain its IP address (printer kept printing blank pages instead of the one with network info). I have an OfficeJet 6600 which is older (early 2010s) but the generic "HP OfficeJet" driver did not work with it. When the "LaunchCondition" table was dropped from the MSI of the 2015 driver package, I almost got the user-mode drivers installed in a wireless config but it ultimately failed (probably expecting XP's native WLAN client). Kodak Imaging picks up the TWAIN device but doesn't allow me to scan. I'm now betting on the Officejet 6500 official win2k driver from 2009 to work with my printer.