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List of Windows 7+ software that Windows Vista Extended Kernel by @win32 allows to run. I decided to create this temporary post, because @WinClient5270hasn't been online for a long time now and his main post is now quite outdated. Special thanks to @WinClient5270 and everyone who contributed to this list. The programs listed are x64 if not stated otherwise Discussion: https://msfn.org/board/topic/181612-wip-windows-vista-extended-kernel/ Installation guide: https://msfn.org/board/topic/183046-guide-vista-extended-kernel-installation/ Drop-in replacements of popular web browsers: Chrome (Chromium) - Supermium Firefox - r3dfox Internet: Firefox 115 ESR Current version (Spoofing Windows 7 required, mfplat recommended) Pale Moon 33.6.0.1 Current version SSE2 release download Supermium 126 Current version (Chromium fork by @win32 (extended kernel author) download) If running with powrprof.dll included in release versions extended kernel is not required anymore Thunderbird 115 Current version r3dfox 130.0.1rc Current version (Firefox fork by @K4sum1, download) Current Vista+ releases don't even require extended kernel anymore, ExK required only for 7+ releases r3dfox ESR 128 Current version (Long term support release of r3dfox) Thunderbird 115 Current version Telegram portable May 2022 Current version old internet utilities (not recommended): Chromium 53-109 (110 with new userenv.dll) and most chromium forks including MS Edge (no extension support extensions work with Extended Kernel 07252022 or newer) Firefox 78 ESR (works well with older versions of extended kernel, mfplat recommended) Interlink Mail client (info: July 2020) Windows basic tools: Windows 7 Paint Windows 7 WordPad Windows 7 Calculator Windows 10 1507 Snipping Tool https://msfn.org/board/topic/182001-porting-snipping-tool-to-windows-7-from-windows-10/?do=findComment&comment=1210733 Multimedia tools: GIMP 2.10.18 Inkscape 1.2 Current version RealPlayer 20.1 Current version (32-bit) (https://msfn.org/board/topic/183621-blocking-realplayer-spyware-offline-installation/?do=findComment&comment=1220085). Adobe Photoshop CC 2017 OBS Studio 29 (https://board.eclipse.cx/viewtopic.php?p=3763&hilit=obs#p3763) Mp3tag 3.26 Current version PCSX2 1.7.3195 SketchUp 2017 https://msfn.org/board/topic/181696-software-compatible-with-windows-vista-extended-kernel/?do=findComment&comment=1219131 SketchUp 2022 MuseScore 3.6.2 Current version (issues in VM) FL Studio 21 Office tools: LibreOffice 6.x LibreOffice 7.3.3 Current version (minor kerning/letter spacing issues) Microsoft Office 2013 (no way to activate it though) Developer tools: PowerShell 7.2.2 https://msfn.org/board/topic/186738-powershell-7-on-windows-vista-extended-kernel-done-properly/ Visual Studio Code 1.70.3 (download the x64 .zip package, installer does not work) VSCodium 1.74.1 (open source variant of Visual Studio Code) (download the x64 .zip package, installer does not work) Eclipse IDE 2022-09 Qt 5.10 Qt 6 Hardware – specific software & drivers: Logitech Gaming Software 9.02 AMD Catalyst Control Center 15.6 AMD Catalyst Video drivers 15.6 AMD Crimson edition drivers 17.10.1 (AMD Assorted driver pack by @jakob99 https://msfn.org/board/topic/184042-amd-radeon-graphics-driverdriver-pack-for-windows-vista/?do=findComment&comment=1227975) Modified NVIDIA Driver 378.66 (by @win32 This driver package is compatible with most GTX 1000 series GPUs except GT 1030, and is considered stable.) Modified NVIDIA Driver 382.16 Modified NVIDIA Driver 398.11 (by @win32 Newer driver with support for GT 1030 and OpenGL 4.6. Full compatibility is not assured at this time. Modified Intel HD Driver 9.17 (by @Ximonite Full support for OpenGL 4.0 features, among other optimizations are included) Games & benchmarks: Rocket League (versions before November 2019) Amnesia:Rebirth (info: January 2021) Europa Universalis IV Deltarune and Undertale (info: December 2021) Cinebench R20 Crusader Kings III Stellaris Divinity - Original Sin Enhanced Edition Other: Google Earth 7.3.3 Feather client April 2022 Current version (https://msfn.org/board/topic/181696-software-compatible-with-windows-vista-extended-kernel/?do=findComment&comment=1215861) Avast 18.8.4084.409 Roblox beta app (info: July 2022) Spotify (32-bit) https://msfn.org/board/topic/181696-software-compatible-with-windows-vista-extended-kernel/?do=findComment&comment=1221451 Wargaming.net Game Center v22.02.00.9193 Current version Whatsapp (confirmation needed) Current version - At the time of testing the aforementioned version was the latest, so newer ones are likely to work too. Feel free to report other programs. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners and are used here for identification purposes only.

List of x64 Windows 8.0 updates up to January 2014. I found it somewhere a few years ago 1 General Availability Update Rollup: kb2756872, kb2761094, kb2764870 2 update rollup January 2013 kb2785094, kb2788350, kb2790920, kb2792009 3 update rollup April 2013 kb2822241, kb2823516, kb2851234 4 update rollup May 2013 kb2836988 5 update rollup June 2013 kb2845533, kb2850674, kb2853915, kb2856758 6 update rollup July 2013 kb2855336, kb2862073, kb2864629 7 update rollup September 2013 kb2876415, kb2877211 8 update rollup October 2013 kb2883201 9 update rollup January 2014 kb2911101

I don't think @win32 ever promised that The main problem with using extended kernel with local redirection is that you can't redirect exe files. This makes it impossible to load extended kernel ntoskrnl.exe and winload.exe. AFAIK the last version of Firefox you could run with local redirection was 64 (as showed in the @WinClient5270's video on the previous page).

No, .NET 5 and 6 are based on ".NET Core" not framework, so you still need 4.x Yes it is, but not as much as other Microsoft products https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/telemetry I successfully installed Microsoft Windows Desktop Runtime - 5.0.11x64 on Windows 7

Hi, Is it possible to run touch screen related components from Windows XP Tablet PC Edition on Windows XP x64?

Yesterday one of MSFN users posted a link to a YouTube video on this forum. You might want to take a look at it

You really could have said that earlier. Assuming those 2 reports of partial success are just placebo effects and that you have tested this on multiple Haswell boards, this information can be called "fake". Until now, no one has proved it to be true or false and I couldn't myself either as I don't have a proper hardware to do this.

This video is rather outdated. Follow the guide here: https://msfn.org/board/topic/183046-guide-vista-extended-kernel-installation/ Make sure you have all the necessary windows updates installed and don't forget about running the "bcdedit /set {current} nointegritychecks yes" command if you are replacing files manually. btw: Windows Vista has problems with running properly on Haswell or newer Intel CPUs (this includes i5 8250u), they are described here: https://msfn.org/board/topic/177509-windows-vista-intel-haswell-issues-documentation/ On Betawiki there is an information that those problems were solved/reduced in the 6003 version of hal.dll, but it's still not known if the information is correct. You are welcome to test this. KB4474419 is one of updates that contain the 6003 hal.dll (it requires KB4493730 to be installed first). You need a 6003 update to install the extended kernel anyway.

As earlier posts in this thread suggest that Haswell+ and Ryzen problems are caused by the same bug in HAL, I decided to test if the issue was solved in the 6003 version of hal.dll (see this: https://msfn.org/board/topic/181612-wip-windows-vista-extended-kernel/page/106/?tab=comments#comment-1206074) I installed KB4474419 and hal.dll was upgraded to version 6003. Result: Nothing changed, BSODs are still occurring as they were. This means that the article on Beta Wiki was indeed a fake news or (less likely) that Haswell+ and Ryzen problems are in fact unrelated. PC specs: AMD Ryzen 5 1600AF, B350 MB with April 2018 BIOS version, Nvidia 1050TI, Windows Vista x64

Running CPU-Z on Windows Vista Extended Kernel: Normally, if you have the extended kernel installed CPU-Z will stuck on 15% when loading. I've just found out that to solve this problem you can simply redirect cpuz.exe to a vanilla Vista kernel32.dll First apply the redirection reg file, then put vanilla vista kernel32.dll in the cpuz.exe.local directory (just like for Windows Sidebar)

To avoid making Service Pack 3 for Server 2008, Microsoft was repeatedly putting those updated 6003 files in every bigger update they released. As extended kernel requires 6003 system files, not a security fix of a single update, almost any monthly rollup (or just bigger update) released around September 2019 will allow you to install the Extended Kernel (SHA-2 support might be needed too, but I'm not sure)

It didn't work with 4.7.2 so I think Microsoft changed the system requirements on purpose. Updates that i had installed: all Vista updates till 2017 + KB4019478 - D3Dcompiler-x64 + SHA-2 updates KB4039648-v2,KB4493730, KB4474419 + Extended Kernel The "4.6.2" text next to "Server 2008 SP2" was added quite recently: http://web.archive.org/web/20210506200116/https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/get-started/system-requirements http://web.archive.org/web/20211006034517/https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/get-started/system-requirements

I can confirm everything that you are saying. First I tried with my old .NET 4.6.2 offline setup that was signed on 15.07.2016 with both SHA-1 and 256 and I got the "unsupported OS" error. Than i downloaded a new installer from Microsoft, and it worked! I'm going to try 4.7.2 next

I solved it by following this guide: https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/6gajcs/fix_for_activation_context_generation_failed_the/ Here is my exported registry: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\SMI\WinSxS Settings\amd64_microsoft-windows-settings_31bf3856ad364e35_none_5e7b0013834d1c8b\6.0.6000.16386\Settings] "disableTheming"="xsd:string" "dpiAware"="xsd:string" "autoElevate"="xsd:string" Note that numbers in the path might be different for you. Many dependences are still missing: user32.dll: CreateWindowInBand, GetCurrentImputMessageSource, GetWindowBand and there are tons of missing API-MS-WIN-CORE files:

I tried to run Windows 8 task manager (much better that Vista/7 one) on Windows Vista with extended kernel and got this error: Translation: Cannot launch the application, because it's simultaneous configuration is invalid. More details can be found in the application's event log. Event log screenshot: Translation: Cannot generate the activation context for [path]. The setting http://schemas.microsoft.com/SMI/2005/WindowsSettings^autoElevate is not registered. Does anyone know how to "register" this thing? (I have no idea what "simultaneous configuration" or "activation context" are ) EDIT: At first I thought that "WindowsSettings" is somehow UWP related, but it looks like it's not, because the website above was created in 2009 http://web.archive.org/web/20090625053858/http://schemas.microsoft.com/SMI/2005/WindowsSettings^autoElevate. It has been broken for 12 years now.

I used to have .net framework 4.7.2 installed on Vista. Some programs displayed an error "A programs has stopped working", but I could minimize it (not close) and the application worked fine (for example BlueStacks3), others like Visual Studio 2010 Express didn't run at all. Currently I use 4.6.1 (officially supported on Server 2008), but 4.6.2 is stable too. Most modern programs still support those versions.

Thanks for reply. It looks like i had a spelling error in my osver.ini file. No hex editing is needed!

Today i tried Firefox 91.3.0 ESR on Windows Vista with the new extended kernel. It looks like there is some problem with font rendering... (Same issue with Firefox 94, Firefox 78 works fine) Does anyone know how to solve this?

The problem seems to be connected directly to the fact that you don't have KB4039648-v2 or KB4493730 installed. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/windows-update-sha-1-based-endpoints-discontinued-for-older-windows-devices-10b58bd9-5ba2-b23d-498b-139ce5c709af Actually solutions on the internet suggest only using some random system scans/troubleshooters. Try disabling the internet connection Try clearing the Windows Update cache in %systemroot%\SoftwareDistribution\DataStore. If it doesn't help I have no other suggestions than to reinstall Windows :(

The link is the same as for the previous version. Do you have all the Vista updates till 2017 + KB4039648-v2,KB4493730 installed? You can find Vista updates till 2017 here: https://msfn.org/board/topic/181756-windows-vista-update-repository-until-april-2017/ and Server 2008 updates here: https://msfn.org/board/topic/176686-server-2008-updates-on-windows-vista/

Guide for the new version of the extended kernel is now complete!

Did you rename kernel32.dll.bak to kernelol.dll ?

@Strikker1can I reuse your error screenshots in https://msfn.org/board/topic/183046-guide-vista-extended-kernel-installation/ ?

Thanks for info. I actually never got the cmd installer to work. This is one of three SHA-2 updates. I don't think it is needed for the extended kernel itself, but I wanted to avoid situations where SHA-2 is "partially" supported. Like 4 months ago I installed all the updates till march 2019 or so (I don't remember at this point) and the extended kernel worked. I'll add an appropriate warning anyway. I'm going to add this later. I will have more time next weekend This section was meant for workarounds for programs like Windows Sidebar or CPU-Z. For now the Windows's default automatic root certificate updater works fine, so there's no need to install rootsupd yet. I'm not getting any certificate errors in Firefox.

Actually I noticed that one of KB4039648, KB4474419 or KB4493730 (SHA-2 updates) contains 6003 hal.dll too. Vmware is one of those must have programs for me. Maybe the problem reported by @Jaguarek62occurs only on certain hardware.