Hoping to post a few of these over the coming weeks, but it will be entirely subject to having nothing better to do.

The first is a nice simple one, exposing a Wizard from Phodeo left over in 4051 and 4053.
Longhorn b4053: "ophotowz".

I'm also open to suggestions, if you've seen something promising in a Longhorn build, I'd be more than happy to investigate. This also doesn't constitute one of those annoying "Longhorn projects", just good old-fashioned feature-hunting.

That's probably one of the many hidden gems inside Explorer. Nice work!

very nice find!!!

I like your feature-hunting results . Nice find, Tom.

not realy Longhorn
but there was 1 screenshot from live demo of Vista 5219 with glass carousel test on desktop

wonder if it was external app or is leftover still built in and hidden inside

The latter would be unlikely because from what I know LH was completely scrapped and little to no code was reused for the 5xxx builds. If you're referring to what I think, that's an external app that I believe you can find somewhere.

The glass carousel is an external app?? whats a shame, I thought it was some hidden feature left from LH..

Bump Time!
I got bored a bit earlier, so I went hunting around in 3706. Never realised how much of a gold mine this build is. I'm planning on documenting some of the stuff in more detail on the blog later, but in the mean time, I found this and just had to share:


It's a non-functional UI prototype, possibly the beginnings of UAC, but since nothing works, and MS have been a bit "vague" with the wording, it's difficult to tell.

whoa nice find

any chance to digg out the famous startpage ?

Yeh, digging through the files now, think I've got a good enough understanding to write a launcher. That'll have to wait till tomorrow now though.

I must say though, the start page is a bit of a mess from the code view. Certainly at those early stages, consistency in code was not something MS cared about it seems >_<

The Privacy Settings wizard might of been a part of a early Security Center concept. I think MS was going to allow you to manage all security options of Windows. An early program consent window appears to be what this may have been.

A small/huge bump - I found something new.



More Info (with Code Snippet)

Another bump.

Finally got to the bottom of why the new avalon-powered display panel is present and not working in other Longhorn builds:

http://longhorn.ms/feature/avalon-display-panel/

tl;dr - Add this registry key in any 3xxx build.

These are like yearly bumps. The original link doesn't work anymore-what was it?

A Longhorn equivalent to the Print Photos Online Wizard in XP, though obviously it failed half way through, because the development-era servers no longer work.

As for the yearly bumps, its not so often I get the chance to sit down and rip through some longhorn code, let alone find anything even vaguely worth reporting.

hmmm very interesting ...
Sad that the 2011 bump link doesn't work anymore :/