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I'd post an ISO and be done, but MSFN admins would rape me if I did that, so I have to do this the long way. To begin with, you'll need an Windows Vista SP2 ISO. (You might be able to slipstream a service pack into an ISO, but I have not tested it) Download vLite (DISM++ might work as an alternative, but I haven't tried it for this purpose) You'll need to get this pack of updates to update Vista to the 2017 EOS, but some are missing, which I will get to later. You'll need to extract your Vista ISO, and point vLite to the ISO. Now, you'll have to select the Integration, Components, and Bootable ISO option. In Integration, you'll add all the updates, by adding the updates in the 1, 2, 3, and then 4 folders. The program is smart enough to integrate them in the order you added them, so you don't need to worry about multiple integrations. Now once at Components, you'll need to remove a few things, as vLite doesn't like it if the install.wim gets too big. I removed Help, Tablet PC, Windows Easy Transfer, and Natural Language, but you can remove whatever you want, as long as it gets the install.wim small enough. Now you just let it do it's thing and make a bootable ISO. There are a few things you'd need to know after this. There are some things not included in the update pack, like .Net updates, and a few other updates, which are linked here. You also might want to take a look at this, which gives info about various Vista drivers, and gives links to them. You might have issues installing from USB, so you might need to use a DVD, but this only seems to be true for USB 3.0 only systems, and Easy2Boot might work for installing from USB.

I pay €14 for 100/100 megabits. It is supposed to be reach up to 300 megabits, but I only have a Fast Ethernet line, and I get that speed in evening hours. It is in Latvia where subscriptions are cheap in cities, and apartment buildings are all wired with Ethernet.

It actually *is* impossible. That paticular dead horse has been already beaten to a fine pulp, but in case you want to know why, do search MSFN and you'll find plenty about it.

Well that's true but this "patch" makes it work again: https://forums.mydigitallife.net/threads/restore-windows-update-for-vista.82336/ I don't know if windows update will find every update it used to find let's say 3 years ago... I think a few of them got deleted after the windows update SHA-1 based endpoints got discontinued (I hope I'm wrong) in aug 2020 I still recommend using dism++ and what @greenhillmaniac provided here:

I pay around $9 a month for a 500 Mbit Up/Down, which is pretty nice. It's also pretty stable for where I live in, comes in handy when working from home

Yeah I bought Curtains. Definitely a worthy purchase. I just played around the titlebar texture I wanted to use in Photoshop to make a blurred transparency and that was it. It works great for me. Sadly, I dont think we'll ever see a real update to this project anymore and can only hope that folks get it going on something open source, as it should have been in the first place.

Going to see if I can disassemble the previous patch, and figure out what all was changed, then apply it to 16.1.0 Edit: NVM, the url already has patches for 16.1.0

I hate when people use that responsive web design with some heavy java script on their websites..

Windows 10 is the worst thing that Microsoft has ever done

The fact that it uses an ancient version of Resource Hacker without support for x64 stuff and that the wfpdisable.exe it comes with doesn't work on XP x64 are probably it's biggest issue. I haven't found a way to edit the contents of the installer to replace these two, and manually editing all the system files is highly error-prone.