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Pls remove this post, I have solved the issue I posted about here

Please could you share the updated kernel files @BlackOtton? Moderators: is it fine if these files are shared over MSFN or will this go against forum guidelines?

Where did you get the files? Also one more question: It's off topic, but which Thinkpad do you have?

I obtained the files from the description in the install tutorial YT video made by @WinClient5270. Maybe they are from July.

My desktop: As simple as it is, I like it this way

I got Firefox and Waterfox to work, but how did you make Chromium run? I could not get chromium 73 onwards to even open. Are there updated versions of win32's kernel files? I so, where to obtain?

You can use the pre-EOL updates from the repository provided by @greenhillmaniac or from another zip file provided by Josh Davidson over at Youtube with a tutorial to install all the pre-EOL updates. This method works ONLY for an online Vista image. I don't know about update integration. Link to the video: https://youtu.be/zCxW4DXvK_s Hope this helps

In my opinion, all Windows NT 6.x versions are the best Windows versions By far, Vista is the best of all to me. 7 is also good but it ran a tad slower than Vista on my old but trusty Pentium D desktop (I wonder why). Forget the Metro UI, everything else in W8 or 8.1 is very good . You can easily correct this using Classic Shell and themes, which is impossible with Windows 10 as it breaks themes with every update. (and sorry I made a voting mistake and voted for 8 as one of the worst) I like Windows XP, but did not vote for it as its UI looks ancient and because you don't have any extended kernel. Same with Windows 2000, except for that extended kernel bit. Now coming to the worst ones: I hate Windows 10 for many reasons ( data collection, buggy and terrible quality updates, instability, unorganised mess of a UI, the list goes on....). LTSC fixes only half of the problems but the other half is left unaddressed. And Windows ME. Terrible, right from when I booted into it on my VBox vm. Is any further explanation really needed?? EDIT:Reivisited WinME and found out that on a proper, decent-specced system with all proper drivers, it ran buttery smooth.

Good news! The latest version of Basilisk Browser works on Vista with extended kernel ( XP and Vista were officially not supported ). I used the 64-bit Asia/Japan installer package and extracted it and then followed the same method used to make Firefox 68, 78, 79 etc. run on Vista with Basilisk. I've not tested addons or themes though.

All of them are untouched files

All of them were untouched files

Also, I discovered that this kernel extension works with all the post-EOL updates from 2017-18 from @greenhillmaniac's repository (version no. 6.0.6003.20555), so you need not completely forgo the Server 2008 updates.

Wow!! Where do I download the zip file?

pls remove this post, I have solved the issue

Do you install the pre-EOL updates through pkgmgr in CMD? I am asking this as my knowledge of this is almost nil.

Hello all, I have been installing and reinstalling Vista on my old Pentium D desktop because it always had some or the other issue. I had Vista Enterprise installed first but yesterday I changed it to Ultimate through another clean install. I heard that MS has discontinued the WU services due to SHA-1 security risks, so I might have missed out on some 200 pre-Vista EOL updates including optional ones. So my questions are: 1. Is there any method to install .cab updates from @greenhillmaniac's pre-EOL update repository other than slipstreaming? 2. Is it pointless to install Server 2008 updates from @greenhillmaniac's other repository without installing pre-EOL updates? Looking forward to some positive response

Which hardware to be exact? Please specify the processor and mobo

Did you install it on Haswell+hardware?

Okay so I tried installing it again and the screen was still throwing that error at me and anyway, I got my old desktop back after sending it to a repairman and it works very well, so now I'll keep 7 on the laptop for now. Anyways, thanks for all your replies.

which is legacy boot mode right?

I'm really sorry to say that I excluded an important detail , which is I actually tried installing Vista first with an iso of vista business sp1 x86 and I got the errors. Any more suggestions to get it running on my laptop?

are there logon or service failures or any such things on vista x86? and are graphics drivers available? and are there any errors during preinstallation environment like the ones I encountered?

what about vista sp2 x86?

I managed to get to the beginning of setup both within Windows and outside Windows but within it, this "Setup cannot configure Windows to run on this hardware" error popped up after a couple of minutes. And outside, I was stuck at the load drivers screen that always popped up sometime after the EULA appeared. Further guidance would be appreciated and if this whole thing is impossible, I'll keep using 7.

Hello all, I have been very keen on installing and using Vista Enterprise SP2 x64 on my DELL Inspiron 15 3567 laptop ( CPU: Core i3-6006U) that has Win7 installed. I have also successfully installed it on my old trusty Pentium D desktop but recently it started crashing with BSOD's, the computer shut down randomly at times and one day it abruptly shut down (maybe due to bad RAM, dunno). Since then, it refused to turn on and so I thought of doing this on this laptop. So I did some research on installing it on Haswell+ systems and saw that someone on YouTube had installed XP on a Haswell computer with Easy2Boot and Snappy Driver Installer. Now here are my questions: 1. Can someone here please let me know whether Vista can be installed the same way? 2. Someone else described a success story of installing Vista on a DELL Inspiron 15R Haswell laptop without random BSOD's or stuff like that as far as I know on the vistax64 forum ( to get this, search "windows vista on haswell" on DuckDuckGo ) . Can this be possible on Skylake? 3. I am not a noob, but am not very well experienced with advanced terminologies of some stuff. So can anyone please assist me in this? If it is not possible, then I will keep using 7 as my main OS. Looking forward to some positive response.