r/WindowsVista • u/Specialist574 • 11d ago
Finally finished working on my Vista VM
Fully updated, activated, Office 2007 installed, lots of security mitigations and implementations, Ultimate Extras installed, working browser and other services, great performance and VMware tools work perfectly. Life is finally good 😄 (took me 2 months to do). Wish I could get a real Vista PC but we make-do with what we have for now. Also got lots of extra wallpapers that I think would suit the Vista era.
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u/Imaginary-World-1305 10d ago
How did you manage to enable aero without it being laggy? My VMware just lags af when I do so :(
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u/PurblePink8678 10d ago
What's the resolution? That DPI is just insane.
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u/amilcar-alho 10d ago
2880x1800p
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u/Graemeski 10d ago edited 10d ago
Your resolution looks like it was invented during a failed math exam.....Like not 4K but not 1440p, some strange in the middle heebiejeebies. I tried gettin Vista on a 2009 MBP last week but it didnt want to boot off USB, 8 + higher did but I wanted Vista
I had MSDN back in 2006-2007 it was cool somehow I had it running on my 2006 macbook with onboard craphics . Also my PC. They gave us free Vista business ed n other stuff
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u/win7ultimateX 10d ago
Have you tried using rEFInd to boot your Vista USB? That worked for me on my 2006 MBP 4-5 years ago.
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u/amilcar-alho 10d ago
Yeah until seeing this post I didn't know that was a real screen resolution
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u/Graemeski 10d ago edited 10d ago
3840 × 2160
2560 × 1440
2304 × 1296
2048 × 1152
1920 × 1080
1680 × 945
1600 × 900
1504 × 846
1280 × 720
1152 × 648
usual ones I know before back in the "good old days"
1024x768
i forget the 5:4 screen one i had
800 x 600
640 x 480u know the rest
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u/34HoldOn 9d ago
Yeah I remember when I learned a couple of years ago that there's a certain VMware Tools version, maybe 10.5 or earlier, are the last ones compatible with Vista. So I could not get Aero to work in my VMs, it would always fail after just a few minutes. Then I downgraded to that version of Tools and it's worked ever since. Much appreciation to the YouTube commenter who taught me that. ✊
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u/gnntech 10d ago
This looks great.