Cool Wrapper/CoolWPR

WHAT'S COOLWPR?

• CoolWPR is a wrapper meant to backport modern Windows 10 APIs back to NT 6.x, and maybe even NT 5.x. It's goal is to be as compatible as possible!

• Please note: This is a tool that is meant to be used by developers to fix NT 6.x/NT 5.x OS compatibility

We don't know we will ever make it like VxKex, because that would take a lot of time which our lead maintainer does not feel like putting into this project(however, if YOU wanna do it, feel free to fork the code and make that a reality)

Major project update

So, about the release date.. as you saw, a lot of our other projects have started adapting CoolWPR (well, cut down versions), such as NodeJS7, Electron7. The thing is we do not want to release an unfinished wrapper, and we wanna add at the very least 30+ major Windows 8.x/10 APIs into this project. NT 6.0 and NT 5.x support is planned, but it's gonna come later.

update again: our lead maintainer got other some stuff to do, he will come back to this one day

CoolWPR will have multiple editions for different OSes, this one (win7-wrapper) is designed for windows 7+, and it's also the first one that is expected to be finished the earliest. Once we consider it finished enough, a vista variant will be released (winvista-wrapper), then windows xp (winxp-wrapper). This is why this repo has the name "win7-wrapper" instead of just "CoolWPR". Don't worry about them being separate projects (our lead maintainer has their reasons), they will all have the same exact amount of compatiblity.

Now for the most important part, the development progress so far (as of the 5th of november, 2024)

• win7-wrapper (the MOST developed by far, current support is rated around a late windows 8.0 beta, which may sound bad but it's really not as it has more APIs than regular Windows 7)
• winvista-wrapper (the 2nd most developed, this one is gonna be fairly easy to do and will most likely be complete after win7-wrapper's release as vista is NT 6.x)
• winxp-wrapper (least developed, but thats because there are a TON of things that need to be redone from scratch)

Without CoolWPR:

With CoolWPR: