Oh man, how i do love Longhorn. I love it so much that i installed every build of it, and took a screenshot of each build and made it in mspaint, which i pasted on the bottom.
Here are the builds:
Note, if builds are realistically actually impossible to install or need me to spend real money on them, im not gonna install them, also, make sure to look at the images! I also had a notepad window in every one of them and said how it felt like installing them.
LEGEND:
- Green = Installed
- Red = Impossible, or i have to spend real money to get them to install.
Milestone 3
6.0.3683.Lab06_N.020923-1821 - Longhorn Build 3683
Notes: First build, and pretty much my second favorite of M3 builds.
Difficulty: 0/10
6.0.3706.Lab06_N.021029-1731 - Longhorn Build 3706
Notes: This build is nothing too different from 3683, except the wallpaper. This one has DCE, but it only works on VMware 6.5x, and im using VMware 17.
Difficulty: 0/10
6.0.3713.Lab06_N.021113-1841 - Longhorn Build 3713
Notes: This is nothing special. The sidebar is there, of course.
Difficulty: 0/10
6.0.3718.0.Lab06_N.021119-1730 - Longhorn Build 3718
Notes: Last M3 build, and it is my favorite.
Difficulty: 0/10
Milestone 4
6.0.4001.main.021204-1515 - Longhorn Build 4001
Notes: First M4 build, and well, it is buggy i can say that.
Difficulty: 2/10
6.0.4002.Lab06_N(ntvbl06).030108-1926 - Longhorn Build 4002
Notes: This build uses the i386 setup instead of the WIM setup that 4001 had.
Difficulty: 1/10
6.0.4005.0.main.030128-1920 - Longhorn Build 4005
Notes: My favorite M4 build!
Difficulty: 1/10
6.0.4008.main.030219-1933 - Longhorn Build 4008
Notes: This used to be my favorite build.
Difficulty: 1/10
6.0.4011.main.030305-2045 - Longhorn Build 4011
Notes: This is a very glitchy build, and well, the original ISO is broken, so i tried the i386 repack, and what do you see? It didn't work, great. So i tried the normal 4011 with an upgrade from XP and that somehow worked. Still prefer 4005.
Difficulty: 4/10
Milestone 5
6.0.4015.main.030328-1500 - Longhorn Build 4015
Notes: I got DCE working on this build! I won't count this on the difficulty scale, because VMware 16.2+ need DirectX 11.1 for 3D acceleration and my PC doesn't support it. So i enabled OpenGL instead and it worked! Hooray!
Difficulty: 2/10
6.0.4017.main.030409-0735 - Longhorn Build 4017
Notes: No changes from 4015.
Difficulty: 1/10
6.0.4020.idx02.030507-1155 - Longhorn Build 4020
Notes: Glass borders!
Difficulty: 2/10
6.0.4029.0.main.030619-0000 - Longhorn Build 4029 (main)
6.0.4030.main.030626-1414 - Longhorn Build 4030 (main)
6.0.4031.main.030703-0020 - Longhorn Build 4031 (main)
Notes: I included them all because they are literally identical, DCE doesn't work in any of them and
there is nothing to say about them.
Difficulty: 2/10
Milestone 6
6.0.4029.Lab06_n.030629-1710 - Longhorn Build 4029 (Lab06)
6.0.4030.Lab06_n.030630-1724 - Longhorn Build 4030 (Lab06)
6.0.4030.Lab06_n.030702-1727 - Longhorn Build 4030 (Lab06)
6.0.4031.Lab06_n.030707-1834 - Longhorn Build 4031 (Lab06)
Notes: Once again included them all, they are pretty much identical. Nothing to say about them.
Difficulty: 2/10
6.0.4032.Lab06_n.030710-1709 - Longhorn Build 4032
Notes: Okay, for this build i had to use 4033's WinPE.
Difficulty: 5/10
6.0.4033.main.030717-1555 - Longhorn Build 4033 (main)
Notes: My favorite M6 build!
Difficulty: 3/10
6.0.4033.idx01.030730-1630 - Longhorn Build 4033 (idx01)
Notes: IA-64 architecture, there is no IA-64 emulator and IA-64 machines are pretty expensive.
Difficulty: ?/10
6.0.4038.main.030813-1852 - Longhorn Build 4038
Notes: Glass borders!
Difficulty: 2/10
6.0.4039.Lab06_n.030824-1954 - Longhorn Build 4039
Notes: This build is largely unstable and just a pain.
Difficulty: 6/10
6.0.4039.Lab06_n.030827-1717 - Longhorn Build 4039
Notes: More stable than the previous one, i still hate it.
Difficulty: 3/10
6.0.4040.Lab04_N.030828-1910 - Longhorn Build 4040
Notes: Nothing to say. Nice build.
Difficulty: 3/10
6.0.4042.main.030905-1800 - Longhorn Build 4042 (main)
Notes: Last M6 build!
Difficulty: 2/10
Milestone 7
6.0.4042.Lab06_n.030909-1709 - Longhorn Build 4042 (Lab06)
Notes: Slate theme!
Difficulty: 3/10
6.0.4048.idx02.030925-1900 - Longhorn Build 4048
Notes: So, this build has a broken ISO and i used the i386 repack, it asked a lot of prompts for drivers and didnt even install half of them. It worked in the end, but damn.
Difficulty: 6/10
6.0.4050.idx02.030928-0552 - Longhorn Build 4050
Notes: This build has a LOT of assertion errors, and i had to install WinDBG to install it, i think i spammed ignore 150+ times, and it was just a very unstable and the worst build i have installed out of all Longhorn builds.
Difficulty: 9/10
6.0.4051.idx02.031001-1340 - Longhorn Build 4051
Notes: This build is very very very stable. Even more than 4074. It is my personal favorite out of all builds and would personally use this one, if i had to.
Difficulty: 2/10
6.0.4053.main.031022-1720 - Longhorn Build 4053
Notes: A lot less stable than 4051, but sitll better than 4050.
Difficulty: 4/10
6.0.4067.idx01.040312-1730 - Longhorn Build 4067
Notes: Another IA-64 build.
Difficulty: ?/10
6.0.4074.idx02.040425-1535 - Longhorn Build 4074
Notes: Aero! Glass Borders!
Difficulty: 1/10
6.0.4081.main.040503-1625 - Longhorn Build 4081
Notes: The first compotenized build. It takes 1 hour to install, and it is still somehow stable. Aero still works!
Difficulty: 6/10
6.0.4082.main.040510-2230 - Longhorn Build 4082
Notes: Pretty much like 4081, Glass still works.
Difficulty: 6/10
6.0.4083.main.040516-1537 - Longhorn Build 4083
Notes: No Aero till 4088, which includes a .NET rewritten DWM. Also, new wallpaper.
Difficulty: 6/10
6.0.4084.main.040527-0915 - Longhorn Build 4084
Notes: This build didn't install and got stuck on the hardware portion, after reinstalling it worked.
Difficulty: 7/10
6.0.4085.main.040603-1817 - Longhorn Build 4085 (main)
Notes: Nothing to say about this build.
Difficulty: 5/10
6.0.4085.Lab07_N.040609-2350 - Longhorn Build 4085 (Lab07_N)
Notes: A lab build instead of a main build.
Difficulty: 6/10
6.0.4086.main.040615-1745 - Longhorn Build 4086 (main)
Notes: I couldn't get the video driver to work on this build. How stupid is that?
Difficulty: 6/10
6.0.4086.lab03_dev.040629-1910 - Longhorn Build 4086 (lab03_dev)
Notes: Had to reinstall because setup was stuck on the hardware portion, just like 4084.
Difficulty: 7/10
6.0.4086.Lab01_N.040704-2000 - Longhorn Build 4086 (lab01_n)
Notes: Nothing to say. It's just similiar to the other 4086 builds.
Difficulty: 5/10
6.0.4087.main.040626-0846 - Longhorn Build 4087
Notes: A buggy mess!! I couldn't get the video driver working and it was so unstable that it was unusable.
Difficulty: 8/10
6.0.4088.Lab02_N.040706-1655 - Longhorn Build 4088
Notes: XAML window frames, it is of course - more buggy than 4087.
Difficulty: 7/10
6.0.4093.main.040819-1215 - Longhorn Build 4093
Notes: It's done! After this, the development was reset, it's somehow more stable than 4088!
Difficulty: 5/10
And it's done! Next is Vista Post-Reset builds!
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