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CDU’s Windows Vista Updated ISO 2025-09

• Verdict: 🍅 Terrible!

Well, What to say… This ISO is terrible. From broken codecs to broken TrustedInstaller, the only use for this ISO is to take stuff from it for your own ISO.

Pros:

• It uses a Windows 7 PE with Windows Vista’s setup so you can install it on real hardware without slipstreaming USB 3 drivers.
• It has the winload/ci patch pre-integrated so all the driver patches will work without enabling Test Mode.
• It has the Drift patch pre-included (NTOSKRNL patch).
• It has NTOSKRNL progwrp included.
• It integrates Windows 10 build 1607 and Micron NVME drivers by default.
• It integrates some manufacturers ethernet drivers by default.
• It has ACPI Wake Alarm driver pre-included.
• It has .NET Framework 4.6.2, Visual C++ up to 2022, DirectX, XNA pre-included.
• It has the latest updates (2025-09) for all the components (Powershell 3, Internet Explorer 9, .NET…)

Cons:

• Internet Explorer 9 is pre-included by default with no option to revert back to Internet Explorer 7.
• Some Ultimate Extras addons are pre-installed by default with no option to uninstall them (Check the issues section for more info about this.)
• It modifies system components for “cosmetics” (Pre-includes some Vize icons and vaporvance fixed folder icons) which could not be considered as a vanilla up to date ISO.
• It includes unofficial patches by default which could be considered the same thing as the point before.
• It has Hyper-V on by default which will cause problems with other hypervisor software.

Issues I’ve discovered while using this ISO:

• TrustedInstaller is just broken on this ISO. Everything that relies on it will crash.
• SFC is broken due to TrustedInstaller being broken.
• slgmr /rearm will give “Error: 0XC004D307: The maximum allowed number of re-arms has been exceeded.”
• sysprep.exe generalize will not work due to the same issue as the point above.
• “Turn Windows features on or off” is broken. So any features turned on by default cannot be turned off (e.g: Hyper-V cannot be turned off)
• Windows Dreamscene is pre-installed but all the extra wallpapers were removed. (Why even include it in the first place if you were just going to remove most of it.)
• Windows Media Player 11 cannot play anything by default. WMA/WMV will refuse to play.
• The pre-included Ultimate Extras cannot be uninstalled as they won’t show in “View installed updates”