Vista in Hyper-V

Bree said:

Be VERY careful where you get the ISO. That Lifewire link I gave earlier says....



The only apparently clean ISO I've found is the one for Vista Home Premium mentioned by Lifewire.

The MS VM download at least is supplied by Microsoft, so should be as clean as you can get.





I have had a couple of W8.1 VMs for a while now. In particular the free W8.1 Enterprise (x86) with IE11 from Microsoft here:

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-u...dge/tools/vms/

As recommended by MS, set a checkpoint before first use and you can keep it activated forever by applying the checkpoint ever 90 days


With the benefit of hindsight gained from W10 I find it useable, but a little awkward. It confirmed my expectation that had I jumped into it at launch I would have been completely lost

I'm very careful of any downloads. I never use Torrent, far too risky for me. I downloaded the ISO from several places and compared sizes to find two that were the same then scanned them with Malwarebytes and NS; all clean. The install went smoothly. Installed a Legacy Network adapter and then AVG Free. Only the download manager would update and nothing else, not surprised. Activated with SLMGR /ATO and then set a Checkpoint. Great fun to see the old desktop. Gave me a good perspective on how far we've come and gives me an appreciation of Win10. I chuckle when I see people whine about how they despise Win10. They forget where we came from. I started with the Commodore 64 and a tape recorder drive writing assembly code. Thought it was pretty cool having 4K of addressable memory for ML code. So funny, so long ago.
Why are you up so late?
Bob

Vista was reputed to be a nice OS, but lacking support for most real hardware. My first impression, having run it for a day or so now as a VM, is that it feels like a 'first draft' of Windows 7 and has nothing to offer that W7 doesn't already have and do better.

@Bree, I have to agree but the same could have been said about WinME [Millenium Edition] that came after Win98SE, worked good on the hardware it came from the factory on but could be easily screwed up. I've a nice-perfoming ACER Aspire Notebook with Vista but the display panel hinges are doing their best in trying to break away from the case.

Bree said:

Actually I skipped that one too .

It used to be said that you should never buy even numbered versions of MS-DOS.....

I had heard of that with MS-DOS 4 but I was lucky, started with MS-DOS 5 in '92.