Vistafand Posted February 24, 2021 Posted February 24, 2021 is it possible to incorporate an uxtheme patch into this
win32 Posted February 24, 2021 Author Posted February 24, 2021 2 hours ago, Vistafand said: is it possible to incorporate an uxtheme patch into this Yes, my custom uxtheme is patchable. Indeed I believe that the one I've included has been patched.
Vistafand Posted February 25, 2021 Posted February 25, 2021 11 hours ago, win32 said: Yes, my custom uxtheme is patchable. Indeed I believe that the one I've included has been patched. I tried a custom theme and it didnt work, the version of extended kernel is 12/31/2020
win32 Posted February 25, 2021 Author Posted February 25, 2021 7 hours ago, Vistafand said: I tried a custom theme and it didnt work, the version of extended kernel is 12/31/2020 This "Universal Theme Patcher" is what I used: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/447531495062503456/556252683569332246/UniversalThemePatcher_20090409.zip 3
sunryze Posted February 26, 2021 Posted February 26, 2021 Is there a download for this available? I'm testing it out in a VM.
win32 Posted March 1, 2021 Author Posted March 1, 2021 It appears that the modified winloads and ntoskrnl are not happy with newer versions of the HAL/win32k/etc. The modifications are relatively minor, so it wouldn't be difficult to rebase off newer versions of such, though I am quite concerned about the performance hit associated with newer Windows binaries since late 2017.
burd Posted March 1, 2021 Posted March 1, 2021 21 minutes ago, win32 said: It appears that the modified winloads and ntoskrnl are not happy with newer versions of the HAL/win32k/etc. The modifications are relatively minor, so it wouldn't be difficult to rebase off newer versions of such, though I am quite concerned about the performance hit associated with newer Windows binaries since late 2017. whats in the latest setup, something new?
win32 Posted March 1, 2021 Author Posted March 1, 2021 (edited) 2 minutes ago, burd said: whats in the latest setup, something new? ntext is deprecated in favour of ntdll, so no modification of executables is necessary to run Firefox/Waterfox. This required patched versions of winload, ntoskrnl, and ci.dll. This makes Vista as a whole easier to modify, but also reduces forward compatibility of the extended kernel (for now). Edited March 1, 2021 by win32 1
burd Posted March 1, 2021 Posted March 1, 2021 6 minutes ago, win32 said: ntext is deprecated in favour of ntdll, so no modification of executables is necessary to run Firefox/Waterfox. This required patched versions of winload, ntoskrnl, and ci.dll. This makes Vista as a whole easier to modify, but also reduces forward compatibility of the extended kernel (for now). ok then ill have a go at it. thanks.
burd Posted March 1, 2021 Posted March 1, 2021 10 minutes ago, win32 said: ntext is deprecated in favour of ntdll, so no modification of executables is necessary to run Firefox/Waterfox. This required patched versions of winload, ntoskrnl, and ci.dll. This makes Vista as a whole easier to modify, but also reduces forward compatibility of the extended kernel (for now). Im getting the same error as before i.e 0xc0000098, and as such it wont boot.
yoltboy01 Posted March 1, 2021 Posted March 1, 2021 Lol I just found out that Extended Kernel is mentioned in the official Windows Vista Wikipedia page (at least the German page). It basically says that an unofficial kernel was released to Vista in August 2020 that adds Win7 SP1 APIs to Vista, allowing modern Firefox/Chrome to run. 1
burd Posted March 1, 2021 Posted March 1, 2021 1 hour ago, yoltboy01 said: Lol I just found out that Extended Kernel is mentioned in the official Windows Vista Wikipedia page (at least the German page). It basically says that an unofficial kernel was released to Vista in August 2020 that adds Win7 SP1 APIs to Vista, allowing modern Firefox/Chrome to run. checked the english wiki nothing there. 1
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