most software developers have long since
discontinued support for windows vista
however a very creative and talented
person may have discovered a way around
this
opening up many new possibilities
a member by the name of win32 on the
msfn forums
has developed a kernel extender for
windows vista
this allows for running software
intended for windows 7.
to get started open a browser and go to
the google drive link in the description
click the download button in the upper
right hand corner of the page
what we get is a compressed file that
contains the modified system files that
we will need to install the kernel
extender
decompress the files to a folder on your
desktop
the location of these files is important
for a later step
i have invited wind client 5270 to walk
us through how to install the kernel
extender
now i'm going to give you a little
overview and tutorial on how to install
it
so
here's what you need to do so
if you have a vista system that you
don't want to take the risk
of bricking it and
you know you just you have a lot of very
really important data and you just
cannot afford to lose it whatsoever like
it's
very important don't do this method that
i'm about to show you because
not only could things go horribly wrong
and your vista system won't boot anymore
but it requires special criteria to be
met
in order to work so what you need to do
is make sure that your vista system is
up to date
until at least april of 2017 so that's
until the end of vista support lifecycle
so you don't have to have the additional
server 2008 updates if you know what i'm
talking about
the updates the security updates for the
server version of vista that
microsoft released for three more years
after vista was dropped
by them uh that you can install vista to
give it
an additional three years of security
updates those are not
necessary for this to work but
you know it's recommended that you at
least well no it's it's it's
it's important that you update until at
least april 2017 because if you don't
more than likely your vista system is
going to blue screen
upon startup just trust me i know it
sucks having to update
you know getting getting vista up to
date but thankfully
i made a video for that too i'll put a
link to it in the description there's a
card for it
that should be popping up right now to
take you to a tutorial on how to get
windows vista's
windows update to stop hanging at the
checking for updates phase
and help you get it up to date there's
not very much
work you have to do to get it to work
it's pretty easy
i know i posted it in 2017 but it still
applies today it still works
i just did it on this virtual machine
here
uh just yesterday and it worked just
fine so
anyway once you got your vista system up
to date
and once you've downloaded the system
files
here here's what you can do here's what
you have to do
in order to
replace vista's system files with the
extended version so
one thing i forgot to mention right off
the bat
you must be running 64-bit windows vista
for this to work
32-bit vista not gonna work don't even
try if your system type here says
32-bit operating system do not install
these
and you know the reason i say that is
because
this extended kernel these are 64-bit
system files
win32 has not yet started on the 32-bit
or x86
version of the extended kernel at this
time
because he's prioritizing the 64-bit
version
at the moment because that's what most
people use so
like i said if you're running 32-bit
vista do not
do this because it's not going to work
and it will absolutely [ __ ] up your
computer
beyond belief so don't do it
and in addition to this even if you're
not going
to care about you know if the system
gets broken or not
you want to go in here and make a backup
of all these
corresponding files in system32
make a backup of all of them search for
each one
and copy it from this folder to another
folder
maybe put a folder on your desktop and
name it backups or something like that
put the dlls in that folder so that way
you have them
and so after you do that after you've
downloaded the files you want to copy
all of them
to your desktop just put them on the
desktop
because it'll make it so much easier so
then what you do is you want to boot in
to your windows vista installation media
if you don't have one i have a link in
the description to a vista iso image
that you can download
because this is necessary in order for
this to work
so you want to boot from it
so i'm just going to boot into it right
here
and uh so
just a moment i have to wait for it to
boot up here
basically i'll just go ahead and explain
really quick what we're going to do
we're going to be replacing the dll
files
from within the vista pre-installation
environment
because you can't replace those dlls
while vista is running
because they're in use by the system
so if it will load here
so we go to next and click on repair
your computer
gonna wait for this message to go away
so then you click next and click on open
a command prompt window this link above
it
so then you want to cd
which is you're going into
the uh into a new directory so you type
in cd
and then you hit uh
backslash d or forward slash d
yeah forward slash d and this stands for
drive
because this is indicating to it that
you want to
switch to a different drive letter
and then you're going to go to wherever
vista is installed whatever drive letter
represents your installation
for vista so in this case it's c
colon that's what you want to do you
want to not forget the colon
in most cases drive c will be where
vista is at
and uh just to double check what you can
do is type in der
this stands for directory listing and
then you will see all the files within
your vista installation
so then you want a cd again into your
users folder and then cd into whatever
your user name folder is so in my case
this is admin
so if you're you if your name if your
username is like
john or mary or whatever it is that's
what you're going to type here instead
of admin you will type like
you know c john cd mary
or jack or seth you know whatever your
name is
so i'm going to type in admin
and then you want to type in cd desktop
because this is where your dll files are
at remember it's where i told you to put
them
and then you're gonna hit copy
you're gonna type in copy copy and then
an asterisk so you press shift and
8 and that's your asterisk asterisk
symbol
dll and then
you're going to type in c or you know
whatever your drive letter is for vista
again
windows system32
and when you would press enter normally
it would say
okay do you want to replace this file
and you hit
y and then press enter and then do that
for every single one
but i've already done that so it just
says here the system cannot find the
file specified because i've already done
it and i've deleted all the dlls off of
my desktop
and again don't do this unless your
vista system is
up to date until april 2017
and that your vista system is 64-bit
if your system does not meet both of
these criteria don't do this
because if you try it and it doesn't
work i'm not helping you because
i don't have time to be a tech support
hotline i'm sorry i just don't i have a
job
um outside of youtube and that's
stressful enough
and it takes up enough of my time and i
just don't have time
to be a technical support hotline for
people that want to try this
and i'm sure win32 does not either
so just don't go bombarding him with oh
it doesn't work
i tried it and it doesn't work my vista
system
i didn't update it and it's 32-bit it
doesn't work why isn't it working
because you didn't listen to what i said
so
just please for the love of god don't
don't be stupid
don't don't replace system files unless
you know what you're doing
so after that you want to close out of
it and then you hit restart
and when you do you should be able to
then
run firefox quantum 68
or chromium 72
that's the lightest version of chromium
that you can run
huge thank you to when client 5270
i highly recommend checking out his
channel a link will be in the
description
we can now install firefox 68 esr for
example
to have a more capable browser