Windows Vista Live CD

Windows Vista Live CD
	Crusty Windows bootleg
	The desktop of Windows Vista Live CD
Original OS	Windows Vista RTM
Release date	January 3, 2007
Author	NightMan
Country	Russia
Language(s)	English, Russian
Architecture(s)	x86 (32-bit)
File size	125 MB
Download link	Windows Vista LiveCD.iso
Date added	December 12, 2021
Live CD	Yes

Windows Vista Live CD is a bootleg Windows Vista RTM live CD based on VistaPE, which was created by NightMan (who is also the creator of VistaPE).

It released on January 3, 2007, and was added to the archive on December 12, 2021. It is one of the earliest Windows Vista bootlegs known to exist, next to Windows Vista Game Edition 2008.

Description

The bootleg is a stripped down Windows Vista RTM PE distribution, which is both a live CD and a lite distribution. It comes with many useful utilities, graphical and command-line included.

The ISO was made using VistaPE (based on WinBuilder).

Changes from Windows Vista RTM

Minor changes

Essential PE utilities like PE Network Configurator and PE Shell Swapper have been added
Total Commander has been added to the CD root as a way of navigating folders on the system, as there is no Explorer

Changes in pre-desktop procedures

The distribution has been significantly altered - the Explorer shell is completely exterminated, and nearly everything is stripped out

Look and feel

New Fedora Inverse cursor scheme

Software

Advanced PCI Info 1.4
Angel Writer 3.1 Build 380
Auslogics Disk Defrag 1.0.0.160
Domain Password Resetor Service Installer (Y:\Dc-PASS\InstallService.md)
Dependency Walker 2.1.3623
Foxit Reader 2.0.2006.930 (in Russian)
HDD Scan v2.7
HWPnp 1.0.0.22
LanSpy 2.0 (in Russian)
MBRFix
MBRWizard 2.0
Miranda 0.5.1
MsKeys 1.0 (in Russian)
Notepad2 1.0.12
NTPWEdit 0.2
Opera 9.10
Password Renew for NT's v1.1-BETA
PServ 2.6
PuTTY 0.58
Quick 'n Easy FTP Server 3.01
RegistryLoaderPE v1.0.12
ServicesPE v1.0a
Simple Socket File Transfer
Small CD-Writer 1.33
SoftPerfect Network Scanner V2.4
The Bee 1.08
WinSCP 3.8.2 Build 330
WinUpdatesList v1.12
xCHM v1.8
XP-Key-Reader

Software on the CD

Total Commander 7.0 public beta 2

Notes

Bootleg quirks

The bootleg is partially in Russian because you can find Russian writing in some places, such as in the Programs list there is romanized Russian for the word "Разное" (Raznoe), and in a few of the bundled programs they start in Russian language.

Gallery

Desktop on first boot
Empty desktop
Start menu