[WIP] Windows Vista Extended Kernel

[winvispixp]

for adblocking yall could try using a dns (go to chrome's settings and search "dns" under the security tab -> advanced) 

fill in the blank space with dns.adguard.com

it works on my phone but on my pc i use firefox

[Ark_mage2180]

I think alternate DNS is a best solution for ad blocking on Vista, but unfortunately it doesn't work on YouTube.

 

By the way. @win32 when will you work with secur32.dll to get Edge working on Vista? 

[Ark_mage2180]

Other bug: Media Player is totally broken. It crashes when I want to add folder to library.

And next bug: I can't install Office 2007, setup crashes instantly after clicking "Install Now"

Edited June 16, 2022 by Ark_mage2180

[D.Draker]

I did a research and the problem with the locales that I found , you won't like it , I'm afraid .

I traced what the browser does right when I try to install the damn "localised" extension (why do they do them anyways!?)

In this example I tried uBlock version 1.42 , during the installation the browser sends a request for "ResolveLocaleName" , 

win32 added this function , but is still leads to an empty response . So the install blocked ! In earlier versions they used 

GetLocaleInfoW , GetLocaleInfoEx , GetUserDefaultLocaleName, GetUserDefaultUILanguage , GetUserDefaultLangID

which was more than enough !!! Yet those plonkers decided to add the buggy ResolveLocaleName. I wonder if win32

could do smth to redirect it to some real value. 

[winvispixp]

9 hours ago, Ark_mage2180 said:

I can't install Office 2007, setup crashes instantly after clicking "Install Now"

it happened to me with a lot more programs

i found that it is best to install everything that supports vista first then the kernel and only then try to experiment with the not officially supported stuff

[D.Draker]

So one could say I finally defeated the bloody drivers .

SUCCESS

376.11 - Works VERY good and Fast . Everything works , Aero , DX10/11 games , Cuda , etc.

 

total FAILURES 

378.49 - Instant BSOD

382.05 - Black Screen (but sounds playing)

390.67 - Hangs up and nothing (had to do a hard reset)

456.xx - Tested several - all have like 10-15 frames (no acceleration in games at all) . Aero working.

 

I ran as administrator In the command prompt type 

bcdedit /set nointegritychecks on

bcdedit.exe /set loadoptions DDISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS

bcdedit.exe /set TESTSIGNING ON

Doesn't help at all. 

 

I have a question to @win32 , how do I bloody turn the DSE so it could  stay on forever ?

As long as I don't select it in the F8 boot menu - I instantly get "code 39 error".

 

[winvispixp]

1 hour ago, D.Draker said:

SUCCESS

could you share the driver? or perhaps a way to modify it in order to make it work? 

also i saw you saying something about some fujitsu drivers working on vista.. i guess you know what i want to ask you

[D.Draker]

3 hours ago, winvispixp said:

could you share the driver? or perhaps a way to modify it in order to make it work? 

also i saw you saying something about some fujitsu drivers working on vista.. i guess you know what i want to ask you

It's not allowed to share modded copyright protected material here , but I can share in a new topic with instructions so you could do it yourself , it's easy to do when you know what to do in advance .

It took me several days , at least , I also had to do lots of tests . But I want to know how to force DSE always OFF , otherwise you would have to do it every boot and it's annoying.

And you need to know I test on a 900 series Titan.

[SigmaTel71]

3 hours ago, D.Draker said:

DX10/11 games

Which ones have you tried to run if we're talking about DX11 games? Do they use 'pure' DX11.0 or 'partially backported' DX11.1?

[D.Draker]

3 hours ago, SigmaTel71 said:

Which ones have you tried to run if we're talking about DX11 games?

Iron Harvest Deluxe, Road Redemption

[SigmaTel71]

3 hours ago, D.Draker said:

Iron Harvest Deluxe

Seems to be requiring at least Windows 10 to run and... let me guess, the game executable had Windows Vista header in PE (PE64) section?

[burd]

15 hours ago, D.Draker said:

But I want to know how to force DSE always OFF , otherwise you would have to do it every boot and it's annoying.

 

I think Efiguard from github could do this

Edited June 18, 2022 by burd

[D.Draker]

8 hours ago, burd said:

I think Efiguard from github could do this

Thank you , I'll try . I don't test on Efi/uefi motherboard. I test this on a very old board from 2010 or so and Titan from 2014 - 2015 . The mobo has an old school BIOS. I wonder if it has something to do with my Vista edition being Business ? While most of you have the Ultimate version . Anyways , I read several posts from various sources saying disabling DSE forever just doesn't work.

This , for example. And it looks like this Microsfot Moderator "Rohit Raina" having troubles understanding the question .

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/permanently-disable-driver-signature-enforcement/176caf31-df98-41bc-8a5f-b9b91589da45

Even if I run all commands as admin and reboot , I still have this crap , look below.

[D.Draker]

17 hours ago, SigmaTel71 said:

Seems to be requiring at least Windows 10 to run and... let me guess, the game executable had Windows Vista header in PE (PE64) section?

I'm sorry man , I'm not into discussing the games in the ex-kernel topic. Yes , it was for Win 10 only. All I can say , I used instructions provided by another member @Dixel,who seems to abandon this website . And his instructions did the trick and the game runs fine . But you need drivers at least 373.19 , otherwise won't start or may have low fps on low-specs systems.

I don't know if it's 11.1 or just 11.0 because my card natively supports 11.1 and 12 so it could you use it directly , I just don't know you can ask him.

[burd]

11 hours ago, D.Draker said:

Thank you , I'll try . I don't test on Efi/uefi motherboard. I test this on a very old board from 2010 or so and Titan from 2014 - 2015 . The mobo has an old school BIOS. I wonder if it has something to do with my Vista edition being Business ? While most of you have the Ultimate version .

It has nothing to do with editions and even i was using vista business till the very end. I was recently trying to bypass DSE for windows 7 on my new laptop aswell which is the same as vista, due to a patched file. Anyhow i do remember a software that could trick windows into believing a file was signed and boot with it, although i cant remember the name, perhaps you could find it when you get free time. Thanks for your find.