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

• 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.

Hardware Compatibility used: 8.x

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:

• 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.

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Windows 7 Build 6956