Discovery in 5111

[ovctvct]

This appears to be a program designed to manage keys, but it isn't. It's description says Neptune to Neptune Upgrade. Really unexpected, but real. I will add more pics later.

[computebrute]

Is this like what nowadays is Keyfinder?

[ovctvct]

Is this like what nowadays is Keyfinder?

Obviously not. Keyfinder is to find a product key, this seems to be to manage keys but that's not all.

[computebrute]

Is this like what nowadays is Keyfinder?

Obviously not. Keyfinder is to find a product key, this seems to be to manage keys but that's not all.

That is what Keyfinder does as well!

[hounsell]

*facepalm*

Keys can mean a whole range of things. In this case, it's network credentials. It looks to essentially be the forerunner of the "Credential Manager" in modern Windows.

Edit: Indeed, one string in the EXE actually identifies itself as "Neptune Credential Manager"

[Overdoze]

Not really much of a discovery, people knew about this for a long time.

The file description is just as confusing as it is with joindom.exe - internal string say it's part of the OOBE (which is true), but file description says "Neptune-to-Neptune Upgrade", which doesn't make much sense as the program always opens on first run, even on non-upgrade installs. This is pretty much Neptune in a nutshell - confusing and messy as hell.

[mrmattdarnell]

There could be another build of Neptune somewhere, or Microsoft had that in there when they were actually planning Neptune, before scratching the project for Whistler/Longhorn/Blackcomb.

[beta.a.brian]

I have no clue about the Keyfinder,but I do about Neptune-to-Neptune Upgrade.This could've been maybe if Microsoft planned to make several editions of Neptune,or service packs that would have to be upgraded by media?