Vistapocalypse

The updates for May reportedly address the "unconstrained delegation" issue, which may have been the dog that bit you (see KB4499149 and KB4499180). There is also KB4474419 for SHA-2 code signing support. It is unclear to me whether this could benefit Vista at all, but those who are actually running Server 2008 will need it to continue receiving Windows updates until January (see 2019 SHA-2 Code Signing Support requirement for Windows and WSUS). And of course there is a cumulative security update for IE9 (KB4498206).

If that is a New Moon 27.x version, did you read FAQs about LAV dlls?

Sandboxie's website has been down for quite some time. It is coming back, although there is currently a temporary forum at Sophos (which owns Sandboxie). FAQs have not listed Vista as a supported OS for more than a year, so hopefully @Ruan will test the latest Sandboxie 5.30 for compatibility with Vista x86.

At the bottom of Windows 10 May 2019 update compatibility with ESET products I came across this: Edit: This probably means that the current ESET version 12.1.34.0 will be the last version to support Vista.

Does anyone know if Avast Free v.18.8 (the last version for Windows Vista) is still usable after installing last month's Windows 6.0.6003 updates?

Getting back to April 2019 update problems: AskWoody recently created a separate post for Server 2008 SP2 after noticing anonymous posts from someone apparently running Vista that did not match the problems commonly reported for Windows 7 and 8.1.

Perhaps a link to your other thread will suffice for now. If true, @greenhillmaniac could always expand his repository. Imaging software is of course one way to make Vista last as long as the hardware it can run on.

Is there a Microsoft link etc. that confirms what you are saying? I can confirm that Vista received an update for SHA-256 in 2013.

Thanks for letting us know. I'm not familiar with vmware, but the workarounds for "services that require unconstrained delegation" in the KB article under Known issues in this update might be applicable.

April 2019 patches may cause issues with some Avast products. Edit: Avast has now issued micro-updates that fix those issues.

KB4493458 has Known issues with Sophos Endpoint Protection (which is a business solution) and Avira. Of course Avira officially ended support for Vista years ago, and Sophos Home never supported Vista.

If the April updates per se caused instability, I think Ruan, WinClient5270 or greenhillmaniac would have noticed it. What antivirus are you using?

It is generally possible to remove updates via Installed Updates - however that one may have made extensive registry changes. I have avoided it. (I did install the latest update for IE9, which did not change the build number or break anything.) If you have an up-to-date backup image, this might be a good time to restore from it. Have you noticed any broken applications?

@Jaguarek62: Those changes have already been noted in Server 2008 Updates on Windows Vista, which would be a better place to post about instability. Edit: VistaLover was a little quicker than I! Any applications broken?

It looks like ZoneAlarm has officially ended support. There is a notice for Windows XP but not Vista. Norton Security users running Windows Vista recently received Norton Security 22.15.2.22 update for Windows XP/Vista.

Interesting indeed! However, the final paragraph of the article suggests the possibility of broken applications.

There are similar reports in a Windows XP thread.

Thanks for the update @Ruan. I was beginning to think we had lost our foremost authority on Sandboxie and was wondering how to confirm its unofficial ONG support status. I would not be a good candidate for testing because I have zero experience with the software, and frankly I hardly ever use Vista for web browsing anymore (but still watch a lot of TV on it, hence my interest in DVR software). What browser(s) are you successfully using Sandboxie with?

I wonder if @Ruan or anyone else has tried Sandboxie 5.28 on Vista? I also wonder if it is still possible to purchase Norton v22.14.2.13 (not that I would want to)? Current Norton Security system requirements do not include Vista.

KB971512 is one of those four, but KB2117917 (Supplement) is in addition to the four. I gave myself a refresher course on Platform Update in connection with difficulties installing Kodi 17.6, which includes screenshots. IE9 has specific prerequisites; but for the Standalone Installer (which I presume that OP sdfox7 used), the only prerequisite is SP2 because it includes the others. I believe KB971512 was also needed for official Pale Moon 27 and Slimjet 12. Edit: Microsoft link I decided to add in July 2019 is broken in August 2020.

Since this thread is now back on top anyway, it has recently come to my attention that the IE9 Standalone does install the Graphics, Imaging, and XPS component of Platform Update (KB971512) and also Platform Update Supplement (KB2117917). In the good old days when Windows Update functioned normally, IE9 was not delivered until after Platform Update (all four components) was installed.

I quite agree my friend! My curiosity intensified after posting, and I have successfully installed CIS 12.0.0.6810 on Vista x86 using the offline installer from p.1 of my earlier link (signed Tuesday, March 26). The relevance is that support for Vista is still ONG. Recent AV-Test results for version 11 were quite good (although I seem to recall poor results not much more than one year ago). It bothers me that Comodo's online documentation is so unreliable. I was just lurking over at Comodo; if anyone is a Comodo Forums member, please inform misguided Vista user that IceDragon stopped supporting Vista when Mozilla stopped supporting Vista (I'm confident that the list is correct regarding version 52.0.0.4 being the last).

Someone running XP SP3 is now trying out brand new Comodo Internet Security v12.

I pointed out NextPVR in my March 4 post. A few days later I updated to version 4.2.4, which not only works on Vista but solves an issue encountered by some users, including myself (NPVRTSReader4 was too intolerant of corruption in the stream, resulting in occasional VCRUNTIME140.dll crashes). All is well for now, but I have some trepidation regarding the approaching NextPVR 5, which will be the first cross-platform version. Will there be room on the bus for poor old Windows Vista? Stay tuned. Since the list now includes a DVR/PVR section at my suggestion, perhaps I should focus on lengthening it a bit... MediaPortal is another free DVR for Windows that has been around for many years, although I never used it myself. Like NextPVR, it can be used as a Kodi backend, although MediaPortal might qualify as a media server in its own right. Unlike NextPVR, MediaPortal is open source. As explained on the MediaPortal Download page, there are currently two supported branches, and Vista is only supported by the classic MediaPortal 1. Windows XP is no longer officially supported, but I see nothing in its Requirements that would preclude functioning on XP SP3 (unlike NextPVR, which has required .NET 4.6.0 since version 4.1.0 was released a year ago). Speaking of Requirements, a word of caution about DirectX 9.0c End-User Runtimes: It is 95.6 MB and cannot be uninstalled. It is also a requirement for NextPVR (which I neglected to mention March 4), but historically was more like a recommendation: Not having the End-User Runtimes cluttered NPVR logs with errors more than anything, but the MediaPortal installer might not give you any choice in the matter. Before experimenting with third-party DVR software, it might be a good idea to make an updated backup image so you can easily get rid of all such things if you decide a DVR isn't for you. (The same advice goes for TV Pack 2008, which also cannot be uninstalled.)

Emby and Plex have much in common: Both are cross-platform media servers similar to Kodi. Both are basically free, but both have premium features that require payment (known as Emby Premiere and Plex Pass respectively). More to the point, both ended support for Windows Vista in 2016. According to an August 2016 Emby thread, compatibility with Vista was broken when .NET 4.6.2 was bundled with the installer. GitHub appears to have taken down releases that old (so someone there should edit System Requirements), but VideoHelp Version History suggests that 3.0.6060 was probably the last version that could be installed on Vista. This May 2016 Plex post offered no explanation. I hesitate to mention this, but FileHorse appears to have Plex 0.9.16.6. There is reason to think it required Visual C++ 2015. I doubt that this information would actually make the list more useful, but I wanted to post it in the thread anyway.