How to turn your iPhone into a Windows Vista clone

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that it is now possible to run Windows Vista on your iPhone, well after a fashion at any rate. In fact what you get is a Vista emulator called VistaPerfection 2.0 which provides your iPhone with "wallpapers, sliders, sound effects and over 90 Vista-themed icons for everything from the computer to the recycle bin, plus all of the standard iPhone apps. It even gives you a simulated version of Vista’s Sidebar and Start menu."

The iPhone does need to be jailbroken in order to install the thing in the first place, which is one point against it. If you need another one, how about what the heck did you buy an iPhone for in the first place if you wanted something running a Windows OS? Surely the whole point of the God Phone is the clean and crisp and innovative Apple interface? Remove that, and replace it with Vista of all things, and you are left with just another cellphone.

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Quick reality check tied to the two replies above: what’s being shown here is a visual skin and simulated UI, not Microsoft Windows running natively on the phone. As indicated, it’s a mimic of Vista’s look; as pointed out, iPhones use ARM processors. Vista’s consumer releases were built for x86/x64 CPUs and were not shipped as an ARM port, so running genuine Vista would require full x86 emulation or a complete OS port—both impractical on phone-class hardware from that era.

Why that matters: full x86 emulation translates every x86 instruction to ARM at runtime, which carries a huge performance penalty. Even if an emulator could boot Vista, most device drivers (graphics acceleration, touchscreen, cellular modem, etc.) wouldn’t be available, so many features would be slow or simply nonfunctional. Historical experiments have shown older, lighter Windows builds can be emulated on jailbroken phones for hobbyist demos, but usability for a Vista-class desktop is effectively nonexistent.

Practical alternatives and safety notes: for authentic Vista apps and behavior, remote-desktop to a real Vista PC (RDP/VNC/TeamViewer-style) preserves performance and compatibility without modifying the phone. For the appearance alone, theming tools on jailbroken devices can swap icons, sounds and menus—but jailbreaking brings stability, security and update complications and can affect warranty coverage. Troubleshooting a bad theme normally involves disabling/uninstalling it through the theme manager or restoring the device via desktop recovery; keeping a backup prior to experimenting is strongly advised.

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iphone uses a 620mhz ARM Cpu, so it could run linux, or even possibly an NT based OS

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