Windows 3.x/3.1.34e

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Build 34e is a pre-release build of Windows 3.1 (codenamed "Janus").

This build is not much different from that of Build 26, yet it was by this point that Microsoft was starting to phase out support for Real Mode, by seeing to it that nearly all of the applications dropped support for it, though this restriction could easily be evaded by patching it with the same applications from either Build 26 or Windows 3.00a, once again resulting in a fully usable setup, even while running in Real Mode.

This build was released by someone later known as shagin099, who purchased this build at a "ham fest" (along with the similarly incomplete MS-DOS 5.0 RC 3 and RC 10), yet the copy of Disk 2 from this build was missing, though some people on OSBetaArchive, most notably sHARD>>, tried to rebuild Disk 2 completely, though they made some errors. WinPC, Battler and Daniel also attempted to fix this build.

This build is from the Beta 1 stage. Build 43e was believed to be a mislabeled copy of this build, but Antitrust docs confirm that these are two sepparate builds.