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VMware Workstation 10-12 installers (and possibly earlier) will need the original Vista kernel32.dll. If they try loading with mine, then they proceed to call all kinds of absent ntdll functions. But 11 and 12 still do not install because the Windows Installer is apparently too old for them (do they need 5.0?). So it appears that a LoadLibraryExW replacement is needed to solve the Haswell+ logon bugs. The hotfix substantially changed the structure of the function beyond the changes between Vista and 7; these changes were carried over to all later versions of the function through at least Windows 10 1809, it seems. But as a such a crucial function to the OS, it is rather complex. Indeed, a full implementation of it as in the W7 hotfix would require two new functions (BaseGetProcessDllPath and BaseReleaseProcessDllPath) that in themselves are quite complex. So I tried substituting them for two functions imported from ntdll plus several other differences. This caused the OS to reboot several seconds after the boot screen had faded out (so before the orb appeared). So it looks like I'm going to implement the Windows 10 1809 version of LoadLibraryExW since it doesn't call those two functions. But it asks for LdrGetDllPath and RtlReleasePath, which do not even exist in Windows 7. RtlReleasePath is quite simple, but LdrGetDllPath is extremely complex. So I need to look for a suitable replacement for LdrGetDllPath. So far I haven't been able to do so (I tried RtlGetFullPathName_U), as I've only been able to get the cursor to appear before automatically rebooting.

Good News ! http://blog.livedoor.jp/blackwingcat/archives/1918790.html I tried USB tethering with iPad mini 4. http://blog.livedoor.jp/blackwingcat/archives/1918650.html I tried USB tethering with Nexus 5X. It requires RNDIS Driver for Windows 2000.

I believe you mean 3.5.11, which is the version listed in Last Versions of Software for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 despite considerable discussion along these same lines in May 2019. I realize this is too elementary for MSFN, but installing Windows 7 on the Vista hardware would solve numerous software compatibility issues.

I found the epic 36-page MSFN topic "Microsoft security essentials and Windows XP" which brought me up to date with the state of play. Genuine thanks to the main contributors there, some great stuff in terms of workarounds and knowledge sharing over three years of fighting the good fight. That game ended 12 months ago, so for my immediate XP needs I've uninstalled MSE and installed Panda AV which is still based on .NET 4.0 and so (for now) remains XP-compatible. For the more general task of PE unpacking/updating/repacking I'll continue looking at options and am interested in learning about preferred tools and techniques for that.

Weird, because to me the the boxiness of Win10 mixed with the removal of aeroglass makes it look like a bit like Windows 95/ME.

I got the two versions from here and by simply extracting the .msi files with UniExtract they run fine in their intended OS without proper installing. The v.4beta complains that it has expired, but setting the year to 2010 makes it work. Personally, i would not use software with such artifical blocks (OS and date check) even if i could. But, hey, it's your choice.

Still works fine for me. Make sure you reapply the pref cookie trick (f6=8 or f6=9) if you didn't. Using this variant of GoogleBot Desktop UA tho: Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html) Chrome/83.0.4103.97 Safari/537.36 So you might want to replace the latter Google Chrome part with Firefox's