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The second most famous build of Longhorn. Earliest publicly available build. DCE/DWM is present, but is only known to work on real hardware.

This is the start of the setup. Not too shockingly...it still has the Windows XP branding on it. However the start message of it is diffrient since it is a development build of an OS.

As you can see the boot screen is no diffrient. And it also says "2003" as this is a development build of an OS.

The setup can kinda fool people into thinking you're installing Windows XP...since nothing is changed yet. (edited)

Nothing changed on the OOBE either...except that the "title" music is no longer there.

On the welcome screen you got a bit of an overhaul...now you have your date & time on the top right corner. And now the color is silver.

The taskbar has had some tweaks. Now the quick launch icons are gone, the start button has been shrunk a bit & the "All Programs" button on the start menu is now bigger. As you can see the default background...which is Bliss is also changed to a texas, western background.

The tour has not been modified yet.

The display properties has been heavily modified...i would say that looks better than what actually came with Vista.

Just because you see this...does not mean you can just reset development Microsoft! It does work though.

Hm...funny thing that "Display Properties" is called "Run a DLL as an App". Nice job Microsoft.

Well...now you got "Plex" & "Windows Classic". (edited)

When you apply "Windows Classic"...the taskbar becomes a mix of Windows XP & a dash of Longhorn.

Is this supposed to be a joke? This is like 3D text except Bill Gates puked all over it & it's not 3D. it's called "Marquee"...thank god this screensaver didn't come out with Vista.

Heh...a random tool with the word "Logging" in it in the "Startup" folder...not weird at all. Talk about breaking privacy laws Microsoft...even if it was supposed to be private.

This is the file explorer...it's a bit changed. To be honest that's what Windows XP's file explorer would look like if Vista (which did not exist at the time) came up and puked on Windows XP's file explorer. But in all honesty i think that look would of been perfect for Windows XP.

These are just two out of all the new profile pictures for Windows. Eh...the horse one i don't really like while the cat one i don't really know. (edited)

Well...with all of this if you don't mind the under construction display properties and Microsoft naming there stuff wrong then i think this build would be perfect for you! However if you do mind atleast one of those things then i would look somewhere else...