Microsoft KB Archive/829967

= Release notes for the preliminary release of Windows Code Name &quot;Longhorn&quot; =

Article ID: 829967

Article Last Modified on 5/12/2005

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows Code Name “Longhorn”

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This article discusses a preview release of a Microsoft product. The information in this article is provided as-is and is subject to change without notice.

No formal product support is available from Microsoft for this pre-release product. For information about how to obtain support for this preview release, see the documentation that is included with the preview product files.



INTRODUCTION
These release notes contain important information that was not available when the product documentation was written for Microsoft Windows Code Name &quot;Longhorn&quot;. Windows Code Name &quot;Longhorn&quot; was distributed at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in April, 2005.

Unless stated otherwise, all the information that this article includes applies to Windows Code Name &quot;Longhorn&quot;, Windows Code Name &quot;Longhorn&quot; for Itanium-based systems, and Windows Code Name &quot;Longhorn&quot; for 64-bit extended systems. These release notes supplement the documentation on the Windows Code Name &quot;Longhorn&quot; CD-ROM.

System requirements
To install Windows Code Name &quot;Longhorn&quot;, the computer must have a DVD drive and must meet the following minimum requirements:
 * 233 megahertz (MHz) processor
 * 256 megabytes (MB) of RAM
 * 6 GB of available hard disk space during installation

To determine whether the computer meets these requirements, follow these steps:
 * 1) Click Start, right-click My Computer and then click Properties.
 * 2) Click the General tab, if the General tab is not already selected.
 * 3) View the information listed under Computer to see the processor speed and RAM of your computer.

Important We recommend that you determine whether any one or more of these notes apply to your specific scenario.



MORE INFORMATION
 In this preliminary release of Windows Code Name &quot;Longhorn&quot;, the Print, Imaging, Fax, and Color feature sets are not included in Windows Code Name &quot;Longhorn&quot;. This release of Windows Code Name &quot;Longhorn&quot; includes a Beta 1 release of the Microsoft .NET Framework version 2.0 from June, 2004. Therefore, many of the recent pre-release products that are based on more recent versions of .NET Framework 2.0 will not work on this release. These issues will be addressed in future releases of Windows Code Name &quot;Longhorn&quot;. Longhorn Beta1 will include the Microsoft .NET Framework version 2.0 Beta2. The following products are affected by this issue:  Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 and recent Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Community Technology Previews (CTPs).

To work around this issue, install Microsoft Visual Studio 2003 to do development on this release. Avalon Indigo Microsoft SQL Server 2005 CTPs</ul> </li> In this preliminary release of Windows Code Name &quot;Longhorn&quot;, the Windows File Protection (WFP) feature is not enabled. Any user who has administrator permissions or and program that is running with administrator permissions can overwrite or change operating system files. We strongly recommend that users run as a Least-Privilege User account (LUA).

This WFP feature will be enabled in Windows Code Name &quot;Longhorn&quot; Beta 1.</li> MSN Messenger 6.2 cannot sign in when you use the Sign me in automatically check box. When you try to sign-in to any passport account that has the Sign me in automatically check box checked, you will receive the following error message code:

0x80004005

To work around this problem, clear the Sign me in automatically check box.</li> In this preliminary release of Windows Code Name &quot;Longhorn&quot;, the explorer functionality of ActiveSync will not work. The problem applies to Microsoft ActiveSync version 3.7.1, 3.8, and 4.0.</li> In this preliminary release of Windows Code Name &quot;Longhorn&quot;, HTML Help does not function correctly. For example, you cannot open the HTML Help by pressing F1 or by using the Help menu. Also, you cannot open a .chm file by double-click the file.

To work around this problem, copy itircl.dll and itss.dll from the %windir% folder to the %windir%\system32 folder.</li> Office 2003 is unable to detect the Longhorn Rights Management System (RMS) Client when you try to use the Longhorn RMS to protect Microsoft Office 2003 documents.

This problem will be fixed in the Microsoft Office 2003 Service Pack 2.</li></ul>

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For more information about the HTML Help components, see the following Microsoft MSDN Web site:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/htmlhelp/html/vsconwhatis.asp

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