This is a small tutorial for enabling Windows Aero in Vista build 5219
You will need the following items:

1. A relatively recent version of VMware Workstation.
2. The WDDM Display Drivers (u can use version 6.5, 6.5.2 and 7.0)
3. set the workstation version to 6.5/7.x
4. The Vista 5219 Installation DVD.

Open regedit then browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\DWM. (if the key does not exist, create it.)
Over there, create a DWORD key named EnableMachineCheck and set its value to 0.
Log off/restart to take effect and Aero will automatically enabled (if it not, change the screen resolution)

 

Here is a screenshot

If you want to try it on another build, I recommend use 5212 and 5231 (it will work)

Happy testing 

Edited April 8, 20224 yr by LonghornXP

Great job, Looks georgous!

Can this actually be useful for web browsing and updated tasks?

 

On 4/21/2022 at 1:57 PM, Jody Thornton said:

Can this actually be useful for web browsing and updated tasks?

 

No. Aero won't let you run modern programs just by enabling it . I imagine that any program that works on SP2 should work here as this build should contain EncodePointer and DecodePointer already