Jakob99

Bloons TD 6 is suddenly working. Popped up a message about needing .NET framework 4.8, clicked ok, and it loaded up just fine.

FireFox 81 works as a charm. Setup.exe didn't work, so you have to uninstall your existing FireFox, recreate the Mozilla Firefox folder in Program Files (x86), and then copy the files over. You can then create a shortcut to Firefox.exe by right clicking it and clicking create shortcut, at which point it will be put automatically on the desktop. You can also remove the .exe - shortcut stuff that gets added to the name so it is just Firefox. To pull this off, do the following, which was obtained from this video by WinClient5270 and this thread by TatsuyaSou: 1. Go to the FireFox website and act like you're going to download it. Cancel the download prompt that pops up and scroll down. There should be a link called "Download FireFox for a different OS". Click it, leave all the options the same (Windows, x64, etc), and it should download FireFox 81. 1.5 (Optional). If you don't have 7zip, grab it now from the 7zip site and set it up. If you also don't have CFF Explorer, grab that now as well. A link to that is available in the YouTube Video I linked above. 2. Right click the Firefox installer, hover over 7zip, and then click Open Archive. Extract everything there to the desktop. 3. Open the folder you just extracted and in the search bar type in *.exe This will show only the exe's, and files that have .exe, but which otherwise end in a different extension (such as .config). 4. Right click each exe and click on open in CFF Explorer. Navigate to Optional Header and you should see two fields that have 0006 and a 0001 under MajorOperatingSystemVersion, MinorOperatingSystemVersion, MajorSubsystemVersion, and MinorSubsystemVersion. This refers to the version number. Leave the 6 intact, but change the 0001 to 0000. Do this to the other 0001 as well, and then save. If the exe has a 0004 and a 0000 in place of the 0006 0001, don't edit that. Check every exe except the ones that end in .exe.InsertFileExtensionHere. Those were included in the search as they include .exe even though that is not the files official extension. 5. Afterwards, open back up Firefox.exe, navigate to Import Table, then to ntdll.dll, and then change the entry RtlQueryPerformanceCounter to NtQueryInformationProcess. Save the file and test it out 6. Open Firefox and it should open up just fine. 7. If you wish, you can uninstall your current Firefox installation and move the files for the new one to the Mozilla Firefox folder in Program Files (x86) (you will have to recreate the folder since the other one got deleted), and then create a shortcut to the Firefox.exe, which will automatically get placed on the desktop. If you want it to look official, you can remove the .exe - Shortcut junk from the name so it reads simply Firefox instead of Firefox.exe - Shortcut. 8. Credit goes to WinClient5270 and TatsuyaSou for these methods. I am just posting it here so people don't have to hunt all over for this information. I should note that I have no idea if Firefox 81 has any major problems as I only went to Google, but I imagine videos would be a problem since people reported those in prior versions beyond the 60's I think. Ensure you also have the May 2021 Extended Kernel update.

Trying to install Bloons TD 6 using the November 26th, 2018 Steam client and I get this error: An error occurred while installing Bloons TD 6 (content servers unreachable). Anyone have a fix for this error? Any help is greatly appreciated!

Sorry for double post, but how do you get Steam working with Extended Kernel? Want to install Bloons TD 6 which is on Steam. Thanks in advanced for your help!

You have to or had to mod the exe files and change MajorOperatingSystemVersion, MinorOperatingSystemVersion, MajorSubsystemVersion, and MinorSubsystemVersion from 6.0 to 6.1. In the firefox exe, you also had to navigate to ntdll.dll and change RtlQueryPerformanceCounter to NtQueryInformationProcess. I'll try that version. I just went with 86 as it was the first one I thought of. EDIT: I tried Firefox 88 from the Mozilla FTP and it works just fine after modding the exe's. Problem solved!

I installed the May 2021 Extended Kernel and modded the Firefox 86.0.1.7739 exe files, but when I open firefox.exe, I get The procedure entry point K32EnumProcessModules could not be located in the dynamic link library KERNEL32.dll. I know Extended Kernel May 2021 is working as Windows 7's Paint and Calculator work just fine. I am wanting to use Firefox 86 as Firefox 89+ has been known to have rendering issues in Vista. I will include an image of the error below. Any help on this problem is greatly appreciated!

Not yet. Not sure if that would even work with Vista. EDIT: I just posted here https://forums.mydigitallife.net/threads/uefiseven-easily-boot-windows-7-on-uefi-class-3-devices.82137/ asking if this would work with Vista. Waiting for a reply.

What I was trying to do is Install Windows Vista to UEFI mode using Windows 10's installer. Basically, I removed Windows 10's install.wim and replaced it with Vista's so when you ran the USB, it would load Windows 10's setup, but install Windows Vista instead of 10. Unfortunately, this did not work in getting Vista to load on my laptop's UEFI mode (It was bought in 2019).

Does anyone know if it is possible to install Windows Vista to a USB HDD/SSD and run it from there? I know Windows 7 works with it provided you are using USB 2.0 ports (trying to use USB 3.0 produces an Inaccessible Boot Device Error) as does 8 and later (which does support USB 3.0 using this configuration). I have tried installing Vista to a USB HDD using Rufus' Windows To Go feature (only available when running the program on 8 and later), but got a blue screen with Inaccessible Boot Device, even on laptops with USB 2.0 ports. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

I have a solution that may work. Burn a Windows 10 ISO as UEFI to a USB using Rufus or similar and then replace 10's Install.EFD (or whatever its extension is) with Vista's Install.wim. I'm gonna try this out and see what happens. EDIT: This did not work. The installer loaded up, I could manage the partitions (and I was indeed able to create more than 4), and let it do the initial installation (Expanding Windows Files), but after restart, I got the black screen @burd got. There has to be a way to get it to work. We could wait until @win32 adds Windows 7 driver support, but I am not sure if DISM Command Prompt supports installing Windows Vista through it (I tried to use 10's DISM to merge drivers into Vista, but it told me that DISM did not support Vista installations), and not a lot of people would want to do that. They'd rather have a simpler way to install Vista on UEFI, especially if they want a penta-boot (5 OSes).

As long as you can get 7 drivers to work on Vista, I'll be happy! The one good Vista laptop that I was using for the Extended Kernel broke due to my stupidity. Started to make a weird noise and one of the hinges was wonky, so I took it all apart to investigate, but broke the laptop completely. Luckily, I have one other laptop from 2010 that can run this. Also, has anyone investigated running Windows Vista in UEFI mode on newer laptops? I take it it in order to get it to work, we would need to disable the Basic Display Driver (which would result in the loss of safe mode and Blue Screen of Deaths until the Basic Adapter is reenabled after installation) and slipstream a compatible Windows 7 exclusive graphics driver into the ISO. From what I have heard from people trying to get Windows 7 working on certain models of the Acer Spin 5 (which is exclusively UEFI and has no Legacy mode) is that when using a 7 ISO formatted in UEFI mode, it freezes due to the Basic Display Adapter not supporting the revisions made to UEFI since Windows 8's release (It should be noted Windows 8 and later do not encounter this issue) and thus requires the Basic Display Adapter to be disabled and a graphics driver to be slipstreamed. Since 7 suffers from this, I take it Vista will too. I only ask this as under UEFI, you can have more than 4 partitions, and I want to setup a multi-boot of Windows Vista, 7, 8.1, 10, and 11 on my Acer Aspire A315-21 (when the Extended Kernel is improved to feature 7 driver support of course). I should also note that this problem is not caused by a specific USB creation tool such as Rufus. I also don't think much can be done about modern UEFI and Vista support until the 7 driver support debuts, but maybe there is somewhere we can start research. And I also think that getting the Basic Display Adapter back after Vista installation should be a priority as well. Without that, you lose two key features: Safe Mode and BSOD's (without those, we wouldn't be able to properly report it to @win32). Technically, Safe Mode still loads and BSOD's still get shown, you just can't see them as they will display a black screen. You could rely on a third party program that writes the content of the BSOD to a text file and be just fine, however, if you need safe mode, you are sol. Not sure if sharing this link is allowed, but if anyone wants more info on this issue, you can view the whole overview of it here http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/guide-how-to-install-windows-7-x64-on-acer-spin-5-laptop.829379/ (This is for Windows 7, but can most likely be converted to Vista).

Is there a video detailing this, or is someone willing to make one? Most of the directions are hard to follow.

This did not work with my Hynix HBG4e eMMC drive. When I loaded the driver from the Windows installation media, it would not return any drives.

All of Windows Vista's stock applications are just XP's with Aero interface. 7 fixed this, but most of them still felt a little out of place with the Windows 8-esk ribbon, which was first seen in Office 2007.

There is an easier option for this. If your laptop still has a CD drive, use that, but if it does not, then you are still not out of luck. Instead, you can create a bootable Mini Windows 10 to a USB. This is the successor of sorts to Hiren's Mini XP. You can extract the ISO to a folder using 7Zip by right clicking it, hovering over 7Zip and opening it. You can then manually install Vista to your laptop using DISM command from within Mini Windows 10. Not sure if this is the same as what was mentioned above, but you could put the drive into another laptop, start the installation process from there, and the once it restarts for the first time, boot into the BIOS instead of letting setup continue, shut down the laptop via the power button, pop the drive out, and then put it in the newer laptop. Afterwards, it should start setting up the devices and finish setup. You do have an impasse in trying to copy files over if you don't have any 2.0 ports, but if you reboot into the Mini Windows 10, you can use it to copy over custom made USB 3.0 Windows Vista drivers, which you can find in this forum, or there is an ISO somewhere that has them already built-in, which means USB will already be working once setup is finished (they will not work during setup as it does not like unsigned drivers. It will warn you about the unsigned drivers later on, but you can just click "Install this driver anyway")

So nothing had to be edited? Interesting.

Interesting. What did you have to do to get setup_wm.exe to at least show that.

Windows Media Player has stopped working. Windows is checking for a solution to the problem. That's what happens whenwmplayer.exe is opened What do you get when you open setup_wm.exe?

My bad. I tried it using files from Windows 7 SP1 with all the updates and got this. If we can fix that error, it may work.

https://www.techmixer.com/download-windows-media-player-12-for-vista/ Check this out. WMP 12 works with Vista. Extended Kernel not needed.

Ah. Hopefully that comes soon.

Sorry for double post, but Facebook Live videos are a fail with the very latest Firefox on Vista. Not sure if these specifically have been mentioned. I know Youtube has, but not sure about Facebook, specifically Facebook Live videos.

That is probably trivial right now. I'm waiting for the AMD Radeon R4 98E4 Stoney to work with Vista, which again is probably trivial. Also, I have a question. How do I apply these steps to Windows Vista x64 with @win32's Extended Kernel? Also, could someone make either a video or a picture tutorial on what to do? Some of the steps are a tad confusing and I feel having one of those to accompany this would help greatly.

Does anyone know if this method will work with the Extended Kernel? I take it that it will, but just want to make sure.

I have an Acer Aspire A315-21 with AMD Radeon R4 98E4 Stoney graphics card. Windows Vista can be installed, but graphics do not install. The graphics card has support for 7, 8.1, and 10. Would this method work in getting the graphics driver (and subsequently Aero) working under Vista? I will attach the 7355312.inf (NOTE: There is a 6.0 section at the very bottom that is blank. Filling this in with the graphics card info from the Windows 7 section and manually installing the file with Have Disk does not work) C7355312.inf