User:Anonymous74/win7buildproject

This is the main project page for my project to install every build of Windows 7 in VMware Workstation Pro 16.

LEGEND:
 * Green : Build is installed.
 * Orange : Build is not yet installed.
 * Red : I tried to install the build, but it didn't work.

Milestone 1

6469.1.fbl_find_dev(wexbuild).071002-1531
 * Installed: Yes
 * Installation Problems: None noted.
 * Installation Difficulty: /10
 * Installation Notes: Installed over a year ago.
 * How interesting is it? (IMO): 6/10
 * Build Notes: First leaked build.
 * Hardware Compatibility used: 8.x

6519.1.winmain.071220-1525
 * Installed: Yes
 * Installation Problems: I have to disable USB 3 for it to work.
 * Installation Difficulty: 1/10
 * Installation Notes: I forgot to disable USB 3 but it worked anyway. I guess it wasn't enabled to begin with.
 * How interesting is it? (IMO): 5/10
 * Build Notes: First build with no sidebar.
 * Hardware Compatibility used: 8.x

Milestone 2

6568.1.winmain.080312-1858
 * Installed: Yes
 * Installation Problems: Only available as a VHD file.
 * Installation Difficulty: 6/10
 * Installation Notes: Converted to vmdk with qemu-img and then it worked fine in a vm.
 * How interesting is it? (IMO): 4/10
 * Build Notes: Show Desktop button appears for the first time in a Windows 7 beta.
 * Hardware Compatibility used: 16.x

6608.1.winmain_win7m2.080511-1400
 * Installed: Yes
 * Installation Problems: Nothing noted.
 * Installation Difficulty: 1/10
 * Installation Notes: Installed fine
 * How interesting is it? (IMO): 2/10
 * Build Notes: Nearly all references to Vista have been changed to Windows 7.
 * Hardware Compatibility used: 8.x

Milestone 3

6730.1.winmain.080612-1840
 * Installed: No
 * Installation Problems: It gave an error after transplanting the WIM to 6608's setup.
 * Installation Difficulty: /10
 * Installation Notes: Superbar now resembles the RTM version.
 * How interesting is it? (IMO): 6/10
 * Build Notes: A whole bunch of various changes.
 * Hardware Compatibility used: 8.x

6780.0.winmain_win7m3.080829-1900
 * Installed: Yes
 * Installation Problems: Nothing important.
 * Installation Difficulty: 1/10
 * Installation Notes: Installed very fast!
 * How interesting is it? (IMO): 6/10
 * Build Notes: A whole bunch of various changes.
 * Hardware Compatibility used: 8.x

6801.0.winmain_win7m3.080913-2030
 * Installed: Yes
 * Installation Problems: Nothing Important.
 * Installation Difficulty: 1/10
 * Installation Notes: installed just fine.
 * How interesting is it? (IMO): add later/10
 * Build Notes: the automatically changing wallpaper feature was introduced.

Beta

6910.0.winmain.080915-1555 Hardware Compatibility used: 8.x
 * Installed: Yes
 * Installation Problems: Nothing notable.
 * Installation Difficulty: 1/10
 * Installation Notes: Installed without issue
 * How interesting is it? (IMO): /10
 * Build Notes: Minor changes.

6931.0.winmain.081016-1805
 * Installed: Yes
 * Installation Problems: Use LSI Logic or it will crash.
 * Installation Difficulty: 2/10
 * Installation Notes: forgot to check LSI Logic and had to restart installation
 * How interesting is it? (IMO): /10
 * Build Notes: The superbar now looks very similar to the RTM build.
 * Hardware Compatibility used: 8.x

6936.0.winmain.081023-1800
 * Installed: Yes
 * Installation Problems: Use LSI Logic or it will crash
 * Installation Difficulty: 1/10
 * Installation Notes: Nothing went wrong
 * How interesting is it? (IMO): /10
 * Build Notes: the Vista start orb on startup is removed :(
 * Hardware Compatibility used: 8.x

6941.0.fbl_srv.081102-0300
 * Installed: Yes
 * Installation Problems: Nothing noted.
 * Installation Difficulty: 1/10
 * Installation Notes: Installed fine
 * How interesting is it? (IMO): /10
 * Build Notes: The final boot logo is introduced!
 * Hardware Compatibility used: 8.x

6956.0.winmain.081122-1150
 * Installed: Yes
 * Installation Problems: Nothing Important.
 * Installation Difficulty: 3/10
 * Installation Notes: hardest part was finding the ISO - FTP doesn't have it
 * How interesting is it? (IMO): /10
 * Build Notes: Minor changes.
 * Hardware Compatibility used: 8.x

7000.0.winmain_win7beta.081212-1400
 * Installed: Yes
 * Installation Problems: Unknown
 * Installation Difficulty: /10
 * Installation Notes: Installed over a year ago.
 * How interesting is it? (IMO): /10
 * Build Notes: The official public beta.
 * Hardware Compatibility used: 15.x

Updates: Image Gallery
 * 9/17/21 - Installed build 6519.
 * 9/18/21 - Installed builds 6568 and 6608 (I forgot to add 6608 to this list until 9/25/21.
 * 10/5/21 - Tried to install build 6730.
 * 10/20/21 - Installed Build 6780
 * 12/25/21 - Installed Build 6801
 * 4/27/22 - Haven't quit, just not motivated at the moment. I'll come back to this in the future...sometime......
 * 5/15/22 - Installed Builds 6910, 6931 and 6936, and I got DWM and Bluepill working in all of them. Pretty nice builds!
 * 5/16/22 - Installed build 6941
 * 5/18/22 - Installed build 6956. Project is finally over.