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vista anyone?

Posted: 2021 Mar 13, 17:24
by nikos
is anyone still using windows vista? I want to run some tests and I don't have a vista VM
thanks

Re: vista anyone?

Posted: 2021 Mar 13, 17:28
by johngalt
Not here - *but* I can throw it up onto a VM, if I can find a copy to install.

Re: vista anyone?

Posted: 2021 Mar 13, 17:30
by johngalt
hxxps://archive.org/details/win-vista-ultimate-x64

The archive is a glorious thing. DLing now lol.

Re: vista anyone?

Posted: 2021 Mar 13, 17:32
by nikos
ok, thanks for going into the trouble!
then try installing the latest xplorer2 version on it and see if it can read its own digital signature? (program property page)

Re: vista anyone?

Posted: 2021 Mar 13, 17:34
by johngalt
OK. DL speeds around 7-8 MB/s so it will be a few minutes before it is complete, and then I may have to tinker with the VM - I think I've got it set up correctly, but I'll know more in about 30 minutes or so.

Re: vista anyone?

Posted: 2021 Mar 13, 17:39
by nikos
thank you, express service! :)

Re: vista anyone?

Posted: 2021 Mar 13, 18:01
by johngalt
The first .ISO I downloaded refuses to boot in the VM to install. I'm trying another I found on archive.org that has SP1 integrated. It's odd, it gives me the weirdest error, "Boot failure. Reboot and seelct proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device - but I've changed the boot device from CD to IDE and the DVD still refuses to load (Yes, I see the discrepancy, in that it says CD as boot device but the attached device is actually a CD/DVD ROM drive lol....)

Like I said - the VM itself probably needs tweaking. Working on it.

Re: vista anyone?

Posted: 2021 Mar 13, 18:10
by johngalt
New ISO working - installing now.

Re: vista anyone?

Posted: 2021 Mar 13, 18:39
by johngalt
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahah! Vista is so old, that the default IE browser refuses to open zabkat. Thought you'd find that funny.

Re: vista anyone?

Posted: 2021 Mar 13, 18:49
by johngalt
Email with a pic sent.

Re: vista anyone?

Posted: 2021 Mar 13, 18:57
by nikos
thanks mate, so it's still worth keeping the double-signing

Re: vista anyone?

Posted: 2021 Mar 13, 19:02
by johngalt
Cheers!