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I tried only one, but if you look at the files at Microsoft Catalog, they are the same for Vista/Server 2008, so yeah it has got files for both client and server. You're right, if they delete the client files from cab inside the msu, our only hope is to switch tokens.dat to Server 2008, so it is nothing more than using Server 2008 (without MCE for example). If they didn't remove the client files from updates for 8/2012, they shouldn't do that in Vista/2008. You know, Server 2008 gets only security updates, so it is not edition specific. Apparently the applications are checking some licensing values. I'm not a hacker, so I can only guess, but there is a Kernel-ProductInfo entry in tokens.dat which specifies edition (e.g. 1=Ultimate, 7=ServerStandard). We have to just wait, it's only few days remaining.

Probably not, at least not significantly. My excuse for running latest Windows version is that it usually runs the widest collection of software/games. Unless you're fan of UWP apps, I don't see any advantage. Sure, there are some small nice things there and there, but are they really worth it? My main Windows 10 installation decided to crap itself, update KB4014329 just refuses to install with ERROR_SXS_TRANSACTION_CLOSURE_INCOMPLETE. Usual remedies don't help, neither sfc /scannow nor Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth find any corruption, tried with /RestoreHealth anyway and specified good install.wim from fresh ISO image, still no go, Windows Update troubleshooter supposedly found and fix some corruption in Windows Update database, nope, still won't install, manually cleaned Windows\SoftwareDistribution after stopping Windows Update, no, that's not it neither. Needless to say, I did reboot between each troubleshooting step and ruled out hardware failures. At this point, who knows if it would even upgrade to 1703 without some fail in the middle of the process. Might just disable Windows Update completely and stay with the current build. Or I could go back to Windows 8.1, that option would also work well for me, it just takes time to set everything back to the way I like it. Either way, the OS should be transparent and not stay in the user's way. Windows 10 seems to be exceptionally good at doing the exact opposite. Now, you're excepted to fight the OS every few months. Not in Microsoft's opinion, you're supposed to take it as it is.

Which updates in specific did you try? I believe that security updates will work, but anything beyond that might not... There are a few Server 2008-exclusive updates that don't work on Vista, such as Powershell 3.0 for Server 2008, and there's a whole separate version of the Platform Update for Server 2008 that won't install under Vista (not applicable to your OS). Also, Microsoft Security Essentials doesn't show any EOL-warning prompts under Server 2008 as it does under Vista, so I'd say that the situation may not be 100% parallel to the Server 2012/Win8 situation... It all depends on if MS utilizes version/edition checking in the .msu files, and I won't be surprised if that is the case. If so, Vista users might be out of luck

This is not a solution, since it is a computer for relatives, not for me

I've been experimenting with upgrading a Windows 10 version 1607 (build 14393.969) system (in a VMware VM) to the Creator's release, version 1703 (build 15063.0). It looks like it's going to be prudent to fully disable Aero Glass for Win 8+ entirely (and switch back to the default Windows 10 theme if you've been using another one via UxTSB.dll) BEFORE installing the upgrade. I've been testing with Aero Glass 1.5.3.872 installed on the system prior to the upgrade. I had some black screens, a lot of dump files appearing in the AeroGlass directory, and some weirdness bling sounds at startup and "Other user" being shown on the login screen if it's not disabled first. LOL, my test system went from 41 processes running and 99.31% idle time with 1.02 GB of RAM used to support an empty desktop to well over 100 processes running right after installing the Creator's update. Part of that is because Microsoft seems to have split out almost all the services into separate svchost instances, but there's a LOT of bloatware added back into the system too. Of course now comes the task of trimming it all again. Sigh. -Noel

The easiest way is using Aero Glass GUI. Go to Theme & appearance tab and decrease Blur effect radius. Opacity can be controlled under Glass color tab but only if you pick constant frame color, as Automatically compute from desktop background option leaves it under system control.

According to your images, Aero Glass works correctly but you have set either too high blur radius or opacity.

It seems to me it would be better if you waste your time sending VBA32 false positive reports, not spamming this thread.

It produces sheep. It might ultimately lead to people being more aware and careful. That might take a long time, though. You can be sure that individually the folks who discovered bad guys read their phone number or home address and caused dire consequences are now quite a bit more careful, assuming they're still around. It's like neglecting to back up your stuff until after you lose it all. As a rule most humans don't learn much from other humans. Not even family. They need personal experiences to teach them that posting personal data online can have consequences. -Noel