Win10-Hater

I meant, what's your host OS?

And I am also hoping for such topics to be created on other forums such as the XP and Win7 ones

I'm just hoping for this topic to catch the attention of @WinClient5270, @VistaLover, @Vistapocalypse and some other senior MSFN members

Have you installed WinServer 2008R2 on this machine?

Ok... I don't know much about hardware support and drivers, so I asked

Doesn't ryzen also support Vista with a little tweaking? I noticed that @greenhillmaniac has run it successfully with all drivers working

Yeah, but I prefer disabling it. Choice is yours though

Ok....lol What's your main system now?

I have disabled all of these three services and have made boot times constant. Maybe indexing uses some SSD resources and makes boot time inconsistent

Wow, looks like a very powerful system! What do you use it for?

Boot time has always been about 20 secs for me on SSD. Do you have superfetch, indexing and readyboost services disabled? Maybe that slows down boot time a little

Specs please?

On spinner HDD or SSD?

Anyone using Vista on your main PC (bare metal, not virtualised)? I do.

Your host OS specs?

Also could you please specify your laptop model number?

i5-8250u? Am I correct in assuming that you run Vista on a VM?

It is Chinese, according to raymond.cc.

Yes, even I have experienced a little delay even on SSD, but I found Win7, 8.1 and 10 to be slower for mysterious reasons. Maybe the SSD is a little bit of a bottleneck as my A400 SSD has no DRAM cache. So I think a Samsung EVO SSD or Crucial MX500 SSD should further improve the performance and speed up boot time.

Hello all, this topic has been created by me for fellow MSFN users to post their Vista computer's specs and share their experience of using Windows Vista. My specs: Dell Latitude e5420 Laptop Intel Core i5-2520m 8 GB DDR3-1333 MHz RAM 480 GB Kingston A400 SSD Windows Vista Ultimate SP2 x64 build 6003 My experience with Vista: I started using Vista only about 6 months ago and before that, I knew nothing about Vista, but I immediately fell in love with it. Now I use Vista on 2 of my computers, one being the Latitude and another desktop with: Intel D945GCPE mobo Intel Pentium D 915 3 GB DDR2-800 MHz RAM Windows Vista Business SP2 x64 build 6003 160GB Seagate HDD . It ran Windows 7 and 10 slooooowly, so I put Vista on it and it runs superfast! XP was not an option since there is no extended kernel, which is there for Vista.

Yes, but what I meant was, MS Office (all versions) is a native x86 application suite and the "x64" edition just modifies some DLL's to optimise it for x64-based systems, which makes it currently impossible to run it on Vista extended kernel. It is not purely x64 in nature.

Office 2016 is a native x86 application suite which currently does not work with Vista as the x86 kernel extension has very few NT 6.1+ functions currently added to it. Only native x64 apps work with the extended kernel as of now. But don't lose hope as win32 is working on adding these functions in the near future.

I downloaded the Zoom installer and installed it on my secondary Windows 7 laptop and saw that on the start screen, the version no. 5.4.2 is displayed. So, I meant that versions later than 5.0.5 also work on Vista if the extended kernel is installed. I should have made my statement clearer.

Good news! Zoom meetings from 5.0.5 onwards up to 5.4.2 work with the extended kernel in my observation. I've not tested it with unmodified Vista though (I'm saying this because there was a tutorial to run the latest version on XP and Vista with the TLS 1.1 and 1.2 update, which I don't think actually works). The last version available for download for Vista and XP on their official site is 5.0.5. EDIT: Unfortunately, version 5.4.3 onwards does not work with extended kernel. It asks for some missing function (I was not able to remember lol) in KERNEL32.DLL.

I observed that installation of updates through pkgmgr on cmd causes the computer to stop restarting properly (the Microsoft corporation loading bar does not stop displaying and it prevents me from logging on). I think this can be fixed by installing Windows Update Agent 7.6, then restarting, and then installing all the updates.