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Posted on 11-13-21 06:05 AM (rev. 2 of 11-13-21 06:09 AM)

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The Windows Vista Extended Kernel is a kernel extension for Windows Vista developed by Win32. This allows most, but not all, applications designed for Windows 7 to run on Vista. Such apps include the latest Firefox 94 build. At some point, Win32 hopes to have support for Windows 7 driver support, which means Intel Graphics designed for 8th Gen Kaby Lake Refresh (the last Intel platform who's graphics contain a Windows 7 Sky Lake section alongside the Windows 10 Kaby Lake section) can be modded to support Vista. Windows 10 drivers could also work in the future too depending on what functions those require in comparison to the 7 drivers.

Win32 is also investigating the bugs that people have encountered when running Vista on Intel Haswell and later processors. I hear 12th generation Alder Lake was just released, but I don't think anything has changed in relation to the Haswell and later bugs, but if anyone has Alder Lake and wants to try and get Vista to install to see if it suffers those bugs (Interactive logon process failed to initialize, several services do not initialize, etc), be my guest. When trying to install, you may run into a "This BIOS is not acpi compliant error" BSOD, which can be solved with a modded ACPI.SYS, which unfortunately making one is out of my league and I do not know of any that exist currently.

Here's a few pictures of the Kernel in action:

Windows 7 Calculator

Firefox 94

Windows 7 Paint

Windows 7 Wordpad

To get the three Windows 7 apps working, you must copy them from either a Windows 7 ISO or from an active Windows 7 installation. Also of note is that this kernel is 64-bit only, so don't even try to install it on 32-bit Vista, although 32-bit functions are added in for 32-bit apps. Also for the Windows 7 apps, copy the 64-bit versions over, not the 32-bit versions.

For the Extended Kernel, you will need all the Windows Vista updates from 2007-2017 as well as Windows Server 2008 updates released from Vista EOL up to September 2019 (These updates change the version from 6002 to 6003 even though there is no Vista/Server 2008 Service Pack 3). You can learn more about this kernel as well as download it from here: http://ximonite.com/win32/download.html

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Posted on 11-15-21 03:37 AM

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What is the difference between the two? For me they are "exactly" almost the same but with qualities that the other

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