My family plans for Easter fell through, so I had an entire day to myself, so I decided to do another clean install and update of Windows Vista Business SP2 64-bit. I did some more research on KB4575904 ESU LPP to see if I could find a way to make it work, and I was greeted with a mixture of success and failure. I am not willing to give up yet, so I will be doing another clean install and update in a few days. For now, the current steps in the guide work fine.
ExtremeGrief: I did 2 clean installs and updating of Windows Vista SP2 64-bit on April 22 - 23. I could not find a way to make KB4575904 ESU LPP work after completing step #25, so no new changes were made to the guide. I will be using the current root certificate download link for now until you or someone else submits a more current one.
My ipfs links currently work. Some times they do sometimes they don't. I am not sure if it is related with the number of seeders or the load of the getaway server.. At any rate it won't hurt if we are more people seeding the files.
I don't recognize the second link. Maybe it was one of those 7 day links that extreme posted. The top one is definitely an ipfs link. The ipfs links are weird when it comes to their uptime. Sometimes they work sometimes the don't. I am not certain why. I checked now and all 4 of my links shown in my signature are active. I will have to shutdown the computer soon though.
IPFS is a distributed filesystem. It's essentially like Torrent. If currently no one is there to share, the download will not work. The more people share, the faster and more reliable it gets.
After abbodi1406 started his thread in September 2020, I decided to experiment with it, which I did for the next several months. When the right time arrived, I started my thread in May 2021, and I've continued to devote a lot of time to it for the past year. Things are going on in my life that are preventing me from continuing to devote so much time to it, so I've decided to pass the baton. If anyone else here wants to take over and keep the current guide going, or start a new guide of their own, feel free to do so. Frank
Hello Frank! I can take over. I don't expect much to change in the near future as we are going slowly towards the end of the ESU phase. Therefore I expect it to be an easy job. I will keep the scripts up to date and probably I could add an offline guide along side yours which will help when M$ eventually shuts down Windows Update for WS2k8. I hope that we are going to be seeing you once a while. Thank you for your efforts! Alex
Alex: I'm not going anywhere, and I'll keep jumping in the MDL forums on a regular basis. I'm just not able any longer to devote all the time with Vista/Server 2008 that I've been doing for the past year. With the exception of Security Monthly Quality Rollup and Servicing Stack Update and IE9 and Root Certificate updates, I don't foresee any new changes that will need to be made to the guide. The baton is yours if you want it. Frank
I can take the button sure! Mind you though I am not going to do much the nearest future other than minor updates etc. As you said not much left to do here other than the occasional patch Tuesday anyway. I will try to add a "guide" for complete offline updating along side with my repositories at some point. I will have to find a more stable way than IPFS though.
I took a few minutes to update step #31 to reflect the new Security Monthly Quality Rollup (KB5014010) for May 2022. There is no new Servicing Stack Update or IE9 update.
Personally I don't. But I would recommend winclam if you have to. It works from Win95 up to Win10. It has no real time scanner and you have to manually scan what ever you want to scan. Therefore it is very light on the system. On the other hand I might not have antivirus but I do have a good firewall set to full manual. So everything that needs to access internet I have to approve it. It is called Windows Firewall Control and it is a front end for Windows antivirus.
dersonpg: I believe Panda Free Antivirus aka Panda Dome still works in Windows Vista SP2, but I haven't confirmed that in more than a year. xrononautis: Besides currently not having the time to keep testing Windows Vista SP2/Windows Server 2008 SP2, I re-did and donated my Dell Precision M6400 WorkStation 17.3" laptop over the weekend, so I no longer have it for testing purposes.