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karstux
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Post subject: Disguise Win2k8 as Vista?  Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 5:55 pm |
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Hi,
I wonder if it is possible to "disguise" Windows 2008 as Vista, i.e. have it report itself to applications as Vista?
I'm thinking it should be possible by editing reg keys in Computer\HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion, but since I don't have Vista to compare values, I can't try it out...
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DAz999
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Post subject: Re: Disguise Win2k8 as Vista? Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 6:06 am |
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that sounds interesting, would be useful for installations, would need the vista values of x86 and x64.
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Windows 2008 Workstation SP1 32Bit. Duel boot with Vista Sp1
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steve
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Post subject: Re: Disguise Win2k8 as Vista? Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 3:11 pm |
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this might solve the migration wizard problem - it wont run and says that it will only run on windows 200 sp3 as a minimum
big problem as going from vista to server is easy with this but a real pain without
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karstux
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Post subject: Re: Disguise Win2k8 as Vista? Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 5:11 pm |
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Could someone post the key values of the corresponding Vista registry node? I'm willing to experiment, but I need the values...
Best would be if someone could export that part of the registry and upload it somewhere.
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DougC
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Post subject: Re: Disguise Win2k8 as Vista? Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 3:45 pm |
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I have Vista SP1 running on another computer so I exported the registry branch from HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion and imported it into my Server 2008 machine. Unfortunately, it didn't make any difference. The System icon in Control Panel still reports it as Server 2008 and several applications that I tried still know it as Server, not Vista.
There must be other locations in the Registry that would need to be changed but does anyone know which ones they are?
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Mauller07
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Post subject: Re: Disguise Win2k8 as Vista? Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 5:12 pm |
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there are multiple paths that windows stores its version information in one is
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion
which you have stated and another is
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
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boe
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Post subject: Re: Disguise Win2k8 as Vista? Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 5:31 pm |
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I was wondering the same thing!
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