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  1. Yes, I would appreciate it too so it will be released when it is ready. Current status is that it does not work correctly yet. On the other side, I doubt that someone needs to upgrade to new builds immediately when it is released, especially when some needed software is not compatible with it.
    4 points
  2. (Note: this text is written for and directed at Big Muscle. Just pointing it out in case that the "you"s looks a bit wierd to you (the person reading this text)) Let me first get the most important thing out of the way: You CAN make money with open source software. In many ways actually: You can charge for the convenicance of auto updates You can charge for direct support (for example, via email or via a private discord chat) You can charge for the convenicance of having an already compiled binary version (which is especially true on windows; on linux for example, you usually git clone the repo, cd into it and type `make && sudo make install` and that's it. On Windows though...) You can make (optional) donations Speaking of donations: what you offer on your website, those are NOT donations. Those are payments. It is NOT freeware. You just get a free demo version. A donation is something optional. The point of a donation is not to get something back from it (besides maybe the knowladge of having helped someone/-thing or maybe getting a "Thank you" mail from them), but purely to support someone/-thing. And I want to mention that that is the only reason why I actually paid 5 bucks for it: not because I care about the watermark (if that would be my only reason, I could have just used a cracked version, and yes, I DID have a working one back then, but I didn't use it), but because I want this project to stay alive. In other words: I am pretty shure that a lot of peole donated just for support, or at least partially. Anyways, I of course know that there are not only positive things about open sourceing this software, namely: You may not make the exact same amount of money from "donations"* You may unveal your secrets* However, both of these arguments are very weak. The first one I already talked about above. For the second one: opening this app would mean that a lot more developers could integrate it (as in making their app compatible with it, not as in stealing your code; the only app I know of that supports aero glass is Winstep Nexus, and that one only works when it really wants to, which, as a dev explained to me, is not their fault). It would allow other people to learn about windows from (because, as described on glass8.eu, it uses undocumented windows features). TL;DR both arguments are... bad. Now let's finally get to why I think it should be open sourced: You (Big Muscle) are not able to maintain this on your own, or at least not in a way that I would concider acceptable for a paid app. Often times, this app gets a fix about 1-2 months before the next major update comes out, which will break it again. And again. And again. This app would be accessable to a lot more people. It would improve the user experiance since it will allow updates to be completed much, much faster. You would not have to stem this project all on your own anymore, which, again, you're not able to. Almost the entire forum is just "It doesn't work" posts. As described previosly, third party compatibility could also be improved massively. A concern you may have is others missusing your code to make money on. This is actually not a problem. You can either use the GNU GPL (or similar), which will technically not prevent your code from being commericallized, but since every modification that is being made availably has to also be opensourced under the same license (or a newer version), it is very unrealistic to think that someone would actually do it, exept maybe in those ***** bundles. While some apps (like OpenOffice or 7-zip, see here ) do suffer from this problem, I, again, don't think that such a tool like AeroGlass would really suffer from this. Alternatively, you can also write your own license, for example like this (this is not legal advaise): Of course, the above mentiond "license" is only one of many ways it could be done (and, again, it is not legal advise). I hope that you will change your mind about this program and it's licensing and distribution, as it would gain both you and even more so it's community. Cheers.
    3 points
  3. While I'm quite satisfied with the progress made thus far, many other kernel extension projects spend years in development (Windows 2000 extended kernel started development in January 2011 with the latest update in August 2019, and is based off the KDW wrapper that was introduced in 2008; even today it doesn't run everything that XP runs) so it may take awhile before it can be considered finalized. The x64 version is quite stable for the programs that run under it, with only a few minor caveats. The DLL redirection method takes care of compatibility issues that arise with programs that ran previously. Things are not as solid on the x86 front and it will take longer to figure it out.
    2 points
  4. Nice to see people that actually like and enjoy windows vista. Is there any approximate month/year when this project will get into a stable version/or at least get out of alpha? Also any chance of a website where you can download already modified programs installers that works on vista in the near future? Good luck!
    2 points
  5. I decided to focus on the x86 stuff while I was away from my Kaby Lake hardware. But I'll be back with it on Sunday.
    2 points
  6. The x86 shell32.dll has serious problems, specifically with (Get/Set)CurrentProcessExplicitAppUserModelID. Buffer overflows occur triggering DEP. Even the win2k versions of the functions by BWC has the same problems. So more time will be required to get in working order. I see that the working x64 versions of those functions have some key differences that set them apart from the x86 ones. Not sure if that will help much or not.
    2 points
  7. EXE install_wim_tweak.exe install_wim_tweak_NET4.6.exe SOURCE win6x_registry_tweak_src_v1.4.7.zip ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Before i start i have to say that this tool was originally released by wnuku and that i have just updated it with extra features, colours and bug fixes. The original concept was by Aviv00. This little tool un-hides "packages" like Windows Media Center/Player, IE, IIS, Games, etc... so you can lower the size of your install.wim Top left is un-hiding a specific package, top right is writing the log of available files to a txt file, bottom left is un-hiding all components of an image and finally the bottom right is un-hiding all the packages from current installed OS. install_wim_tweak.exe /? This will show all available options.. install_wim_tweak.exe /p <MountPath> This will unhide all the packages in the selected image install_wim_tweak.exe /o This will unhide all the packages on the currently installed OS install_wim_tweak.exe /p <MountPath> /l This will list all the packages available in the selected image and write them to a text file in the same directory. install_wim_tweak.exe /o /l This will list all the packages available on the installed OS and write them to a text file in the same directory. install_wim_tweaks.exe /p <MountPath> /c Microsoft-Windows-......... This will just inhide the selected component from the selected image, can also be used with /o. If you add /r at the end it will remove the package. Changes made from the original version by wnuku */h will restore them to default (must use without /h first) */n will not create backups (faster) */d will not delete owners keys. */m is no longer needed, will do the task by default */l will output a list of all packages to a text file. */o will use currently installed image. *fixed a bug where it did not work if there was a space in the mountpath. */c <PackageName> will un-hide specific package * using /r with /c will remove the package *Win32Security.dll file is no longer needed *Added new colours, errors are displayed in Red *Fixed bug crashing at end of running *Fixed bug where it cannot unmount registry if something fails *Added specific component selection *Fixed some other bugs *Added an appropriate small icon for the app Also normally you will have to put the specific component name i.e. "/c Microsoft-Hyper-V-Common-Drivers-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~x86~~6.1.7601.17514" but if for example you put "/c Microsoft-Hyper-V-Common-Drivers-Package" it will show all packages starting with that. F.A.Q If you have any questions let me know...
    1 point
  8. This seems to be for Win8, just like the other one you posted. About USB, check in BIOS/EFI settings if you can switch it to USB2 mode for now. There are some USB3 drivers floating around the net, but better start simple first.
    1 point
  9. - I wan to add that cent 3.9.2.45 supports netflix web, spotify web and discord web. Netflix needs Widevine Content Decryption Module activated and updated, you can do this typing chrome://components/ and then on Widevine Content Decryption press check for updates and thats all! isnt the case of chromium 72 offered on the video of winclient. im slowly returning to vista again, i just need to league of legends to work and i will wipe my win 10 partition
    1 point
  10. Welcome to MSFN , Basically theres no alpha or beta it just depends on which functions that are added are needed for the software you use , currently many functions are added to the x64 files which is quite good and helpful for running unsupported software , and the 32bit ones are being worked on , this ofcourse wouldn't be possible without win32 so do give him your thanks
    1 point
  11. It is unstable and somewhat slow to boot with the EFI loader compared to 2012R2 on a 5400 rpm HDD. About five random services do not start at each boot. This wrecks havoc on Windows Updates, as they often fail and in one case broke the install.
    1 point
  12. I think he should let him breathe, he probably has more important concerns than software to do, it is not by harassing him that his will come faster. He also has a life, patience and a virtue
    1 point
  13. Arduino 1.8.13 (Latest) runs fine provided you edit the arduino-builder.exe MinorOperatingSystem and MinorSubsystemVersion in CFF Explorer otherwise code will fail to compile, other than that it installs with no problems
    1 point
  14. Steam verifications can be bypassed by placing a cfg near steam.exe it would seem , it would get rid of the checksum issue and stop redownloading everytime. Also used the Chromium 77 files from my Dec 2019 build and steam is still blank and steamhelper still crashes . steam.cfg
    1 point
  15. Hello, does anybody have mirror for Install_WIM-Tweak_v1-4-7-0_DotNET46? Downloaded file from here has 0 bytes. :/
    1 point
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