Windows Vista Eternity 2009

Windows Vista Eternity 2009
	Crusty Windows bootleg
	The desktop of Windows Vista Eternity 2009
Original OS	Windows Vista SP1
Release date	September 4, 2008
Author	Benjamin Samson of Black Edition Team
Country	India
Language(s)	English
Architecture(s)	x86 (32-bit)
File size	5.7 GiB (combined)
Download link	VE2009SP1_1.iso; (Disc 1, 3.8 GiB); VE2009SP1_2.iso; (Disc 2, 1.9 GiB)
Date added	January 2, 2022

Windows Vista Eternity 2009 is a bootleg Windows Vista SP1 edition, which was created by Benjamin Samson. It released on September 4, 2008, and was added to the archive on January 2, 2022. It is the sequel to Windows Vista Black Edition.

It is the last bootleg to have the Black Edition Team branding. Afterwards on September 21, 2008, the team got rebranded to Rockers International Team, for technical reasons according to Benjamin. Windows Royal Business Edition 2009 is the first bootleg to have the Rockers International Team branding, and Windows 7 Black Edition 2009 R1 is the first bootleg in the collection to have the branding.

There is another (similarly titled) version of this bootleg, named Windows Vista Black Eternity 2009,^[1] which is also lost. This also makes it especially difficult to find because there are two different bootlegs named both "Windows Vista Black Edition" and "Eternity" (it being this one) by the same person, making it hard to search. It had both 32-bit and 64-bit versions. Luckily, there is some evidence remaining on this bootleg, which would be located at https://cmao.ucoz.net/load/15-1-0-45.

This bootleg comes in 2 parts, like its sequel.

Description

The bootleg is a modified Windows Vista SP1 ISO which comes with many programs and themes. It comes with a new autorun which allows you to install additional software. It is unattended and preactivated with a bootloader crack.

Changes from Windows Vista SP1

Changes in pre-desktop procedures

New setup background
New startup video
New login background

Look and feel

New default theme, and wallpaper
25 new themes included (2 stock themes)
3 new wallpapers included
600+ new gadgets included
New icon set included

Software

7-Zip 4.42
Foxit Reader 2.0 build 0930
HyperSnap 6.21.04 (cracked, registered to Juanita McCants)
ImgBurn 2.3.0.0
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3
PowerShell 1.0
WinRAR 3.62 (cracked, registered to Alexander Aymanov)
Yahoo! Messenger for Vista Preview (2008.01.01.428)

Customization Utilities

RocketDock 1.3.5

Screensavers

Windows Logo 2
Windows Energy

Software on the CD

Software Pack 1

Microsoft Office 2007

Software Pack 2

DVD Shrink 3.2.0.15
J. River Media Center 12.0.279 (BetaMaster Crack)
DVD Region Free 5.9.8.5 (.txt Keys)
Nero 8.4.0.0 Ultra Edition (CiM Keygen)
IDM 5.14 (SnD Crack)
ESET NOD32 Antivirus 3.0.667
VLC Media Player 0.8.6a
ACDSee 10 (CORE Keygen)
UltraISO 9.3.0.2612 (.txt Keys)
Xilisoft Video Converter 5.0 (SnD Keygen)
Dolby Digital Plugins (.txt Keys)
Ashampoo Music Studio (NeoX Keygen)

Updates

Microsoft Plus! for Windows XP (mislabeled as Microsoft Plus! for Windows Vista)

Notes

Trivia

Fun fact: Did you know that this OS was one of the first candidates chosen for a potential new VM 0b0t snapshot based on Windows Vista, back in February 2023?
The tests were proven successful, but in order for the internet to properly work, the VLAN ID must be set to the correct value as the CollabNet infrastructure and the VMs hooked to it used to rely on VLANs during this time. VM 0b0t had its own special VLAN, with slightly more lenient internet restrictions. But as Windows Vista does not support VLAN IDs, a solution had to be found.
After a few minutes of brainstorming, a solution was found - you simply had to install Windows Server 2008 R1 drivers to make it work. Its server counterpart fully supported VLAN IDs. And as both of them used the same OS as a base, and because of that, the internet worked perfectly fine. There would eventually be a Vista-based VM 0b0t snapshot on the 21st revision. However, it didn't use this bootleg, instead it used Windows 2007.

Bootleg quirks

You can find 300 MB of ATI and NVIDIA nForce drivers on the desktop.
There are installer executables for Yahoo! Messenger for Vista Preview in the Programs folder.
You can't select the Upgrade path in the Setup.

CD contents and other info

When you open the autorun, a Flash video will play on startup. It is really loud. In the autorun, a Flash video of a loop of a waterfall plays inside a computer monitor.