Bring Back Windows Vista/7 Logon Screen

y'all, is there any way to replace the W11 lockscreen with the old Vista logon screen?

Since that is before logon to user I know of no third party app that can do that. Vista and 11 are 2 different breeds when it comes to the GUI. Built on entirely different code.
If you don't like the login screen, use netplwiz and use automatic log-in instead..
I chuckled when I did a quick web search. It seems you may be the ONLY user who wants that or any part of Vista. Guess I must ask "why?"

glasskuter said:

Since that is before logon to user I know of no third party app that can do that. Vista and 11 are 2 different breeds when it comes to the GUI. Built on entirely different code.
If you don't like the login screen, use netplwiz and use automatic log-in instead..
I chuckled when I did a quick web search. It seems you may be the ONLY user who wants that or any part of Vista. Guess I must ask "why?"

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I too had to smile at this one. Back in 2007 I had a Dell that came with Vista. I never had a problem with Vista and in fact I recall rather liking it at the time.

glasskuter said:

Since that is before logon to user I know of no third party app that can do that. Vista and 11 are 2 different breeds when it comes to the GUI. Built on entirely different code.
If you don't like the login screen, use netplwiz and use automatic log-in instead..
I chuckled when I did a quick web search. It seems you may be the ONLY user who wants that or any part of Vista. Guess I must ask "why?"

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you made me giggle lol. i knew i was the only cause i've been looking for some software for foreeever, so i figured i'd post my issue here to seek for some help or be ultimately discouraged to give my wishes up :").
i love vista and i've been trying to turn my thinkpad into a vista workstation using the minimum system resources possible. got a functioning taskbar, some tray icons and the gagdets on the desktop, and obviously a remastered aero 4k cursor. gave up on windowblinds bc it's so broken on 11 it was a pain in my neck (i just get happy when adobe acrobat randomly uses aero basic windows : ] ). thanks for replying. i love vista and idc what others think

TraderGary said:

I too had to smile at this one. Back in 2007 I had a Dell that came with Vista. I never had a problem with Vista and in fact I recall rather liking it at the time.

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vista was ahead of its time. give it good enough system resources and it'd been a hit imo

vista on intel 8th gen cpu



vista on intel 6th gen with nvme

SIW2 said:

vista on intel 8th gen cpu

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vista on intel 6th gen with nvme

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WHAT? HOW??? installing 7 is already a difficult thing i didn't even know vista was possible. i have a 10th gen intel cpu with an nvme ssd. how did you manage to do this? is it your daily driver? it looks amazing!

modded nvme drivers from one of our Chinese chums.

Not hard to run vista on a sata ssd with intel 8th gen cpu and a 300 series motherboard. One missing driver acpitime.sys

might be able to mod the win7 acpitime 300 series driver but havent bothered trying yet.

I havent tried vista with a 10th gen machine.

I expect it is not too dificult to run win7 on 10th gen with nvme. No win7 igpu drivers for 10th gen so graphics card would be needed.

Just been mucking around with win7 getting the 300 series acpitime to work on 600 series and using fernandos drivers for samsung 980 seems to work

SIW2 said:

modded nvme drivers from one of our Chinese chums.

Not hard to run vista on a sata ssd with intel 8th gen cpu and a 300 series motherboard. One missing driver acpitime.sys

might be able to mod the win7 acpitime 300 series driver but havent bothered trying yet.

I havent tried vista with a 10th gen machine.

I expect it is not too dificult to run win7 on 10th gen with nvme. No win7 igpu drivers for 10th gen so graphics card would be needed.

Just been mucking around with win7 getting the 300 series acpitime to work on 600 series and using fernandos drivers for samsung 980 seems to work

I am looking for B660 chipset driver for WIN7 - Windows 7 Help Forums

Not to open a new post... in short, I need a driver for WIN7, namely for the Samsung 980 Pro. I do have DriverVer=01/21/2020,3.3.0.2003 from Samsung, it works, but it only works when win7 is already i

www.sevenforums.com

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yeah. i run on integrated graphix so idk how i'd work my way around that. but i'd love to run 7 on it. are there any intel uhd graphics 620 driver workarounds for win7?

If i remember correctly, somebody modded the biostar win7 8th gen uhd 630 igpu drivers to support whiskeylake uhd 620. It is on sevenforums somewhere.

No idea if it would work on 10th gen, but I doubt it.

any old graphics should do. I have kept an ancient 9500gt just in case I need something to experiment with.

misleading title, it is not solved

if all you want is the logon UI... use winaero to enable 'require un/password' and then just replace the default logon wallpaper in %programdata%

SIW2 said:

If i remember correctly, somebody modded the biostar win7 8th gen uhd 630 igpu drivers to support whiskeylake uhd 620. It is on sevenforums somewhere.

No idea if it would work on 10th gen, but I doubt it.

any old graphics would do. I have kept an old 9500gt just in case I need something to experiment with.

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yeah. but i don't have any graphix card. all i had was an hp with a radeon 520 graphix card which allowed me to downgrade from 10 to 7 years ago. i might give up tho.

dacrone said:

if all you want is the logon UI... use winaero to enable 'require un/password' and then just replace the default logon wallpaper in %programdata%

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yeah, ik. but it's just not the same. doesn't feel right. anyway, moving on, do you know any customizergod alternatives? it doesn't work well on 11. i can only change the network icons, but the sound ones change all to the same, and the battmeter ones can't be modified for some reason.

dogag said:

yeah, ik. but it's just not the same. doesn't feel right. anyway, moving on, do you know any customizergod alternatives? it doesn't work well on 11. i can only change the network icons, but the sound ones change all to the same, and the battmeter ones can't be modified for some reason.

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nope. i looked around about 8-9 months ago but didnt see anything back then so quit caring to try on those, really.

dacrone said:

nope. i looked around about 8-9 months ago but didnt see anything back then so quit caring to try on those, really.

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sad to see they stopped updating it. anyway thanks sm

there is i225-V net driver can work for win7

and also chipset "drivers" to make device manager look pretty.


But you will be stuck with vga.sys for graphics unless you can find a suitable card in a boot sale.