Welcome to my Windows Vista files site, currently hosting over 891MB of pure Windows Vista (as well as Longhorn) Content. This is a list of Windows Vista files I've collected over a span of 7 years. I hope you enjoy the site. Anything you wish to contribute, or to correct any errors, etc. feel free to email me: emoaddict15 <at> gmail <dot> com. Please take note this site is designed for 1280x720 or greater resolution. The site is still usable at a lower res, just the navigation will not appear right!
Longhorn Timeline (Now with Permission from Chris123NT!)(Help keep this list up-to-date. Please email me and fill in the missing information. Thanks to jabster for 4039 and 4066.
- Windows "Codename: Longhorn" Build 3683 – Leaked November 19, 2002. First public leak of Windows “Longhorn”. This build is from Lab 06; contained extras from the Avalon lab that are not seen in other builds (new display properties dialog box, etc). Some features were broken, such as Internet Explorer downloads.
- Windows "Codename: Longhorn" Build 4008 – Leaked February 28, 2003. Second leak. Contained a cleaner version of the “Plex” visual style; Internet Explorer downloads fixed, more sidebar tiles.
- Windows "Codename: Longhorn" Build 4015 – Leaked April 2003. Third Leak. We prefer to call this the build from hell. Not much different from 4008, except the new style taskbar was enabled by default and could only be disabled by turning off the sidebar. This build consumed HUGE amounts of memory in very little time.
- Windows "Codename: Longhorn" Build 4029 – Leaked September 23, 2003. Fourth leak. Displayed the beginnings of the new style Explorer windows, contained a new sidebar clock.
- Windows "Codename: Longhorn" Build 4051 – Leaked October 25, 2003. Released at the Professional Developer Conference, this build was supposed to be quite stable, as it was the first developer preview of Longhorn, but it ended up being horrible as far as being able to develop and test sidebar tiles went. It just leaked too much memory which hindered the ability to do anything useful with it. Introduction of the “Slate” theme, “Plex” was removed.
- Windows "Codename: Longhorn" Build 4053 – Leaked March 1, 2004. Explorer memory leak seems to have been fixed for the most part. More responsive than 4051.
- Windows "Codename: Longhorn" Build 3718 – Leaked April 30, 2004. First build with DCE Effects.
- Windows "Codename: Longhorn" Build 4074 – Released at the WinHEC Engineering Conference on May 4, 2004. New features include the Jade theme, more sidebar tiles, etc.
- Windows "Codename: Longhorn" Build 5048 – Released at the WinHEC Engineering Conference on April 25, 2005. New features include a complete rewrite, new polished theme, increased stability compared to the alphas.
- Windows Vista Build 5112 – Released to MSDN and Microsoft Connect testers on July 27, 2005. Now identifies to "Windows Vista". Increased Stability.
- Windows Vista Build 5219 – Released at the Professional Developer's Conference on September 13, 2005. New features include "Flip" feature, 3D scrolling windows, WinFX Games, sidebar (unofficial), the announcement of Gadgets, etc.
- Windows Vista Build 5231 - Leaked on October 9, 2005. There are actually 2 leaked compiles of this build, one is the winmain labs build (which is a month younger then idx02) and idx02. idx02 is recommended. This build includes a lot of clean up and bug fixes that were absent from 5219.
- Windows Vista Build 5259 - Leaked on November 30, 2005. Once again, there are 2 leaked compiles of this build. One is the TAP program build and the other is 051113-2100 Compiles (A few days younger compared to TAP). Key features include: a redisgned aero, the ability to change the aero theme colour, new and redisgned control panel UIs and loads of other features throughout the OS.
- Windows Vista Build 5270.09 - Released to MSDN and Microsoft Connect testers on December 19, 2005. This build is fairly similiar to 5259 but features more stability.
- Windows Vista Build 5308.17 - Released to Microsoft Connect testers on February 22, 2006. Vista is now considered "Feature Complete" meaning all the planned features in Vista are now there (though some may not even fully function yet or have some serious bugs). This is the first build to released as a Staged install and actually have it work correctly. It also includes improved explorer.exe stability over 5270 and improved compatibility. Glass has some new bugs (especially with Nvidia cards). The biggest milestone: Sidebar has finally come back. A second build, 5308.60, was released on March 1, 2006. This build has improvements to Server code, mainly 12 DC fixes. For some people it has improved stability and performance. This build was unstaged.
- Windows Vista Build 5342.02 - Released to Microsoft Connect testers on March 23, 2006. The builds have included better driver support, better program compatibility and over 5,000 bug fixes. Sidebar had new gadgets as well. Thanks to a new employee on the Vista team, testers got this build as a gift under one condition, to not leak it. Only Connect testers got this build.
- Windows Vista Build 5361 - Released to TAP Program testers on April xx, 2006. Features included new wallpapers, improved UI, new gadgets. This build has not been leaked as of April 16, 2006 (date of writing). It's January 25, 2009 and it appears of have not been leaked.
- Windows Vista Build 5365.08 - Released to Microsoft Conncet testers on April 21, 2006. Improvements include improved over-all resposiveness of the OS, new wallpapers, slightly improved UI, faster glass, new gadgets, increased compatibility.
- Windows Vista Build 5381.01 - Released to Microsoft Conncet testers in Early May, 2006.
- Windows "Codename: Longhorn" Build 3706 – Leaked May 23, 2006.
- Windows "Codename: Longhorn" Build 4033 – Leaked May 23, 2006.
- Windows "Codename: Longhorn" Build 4011 – Leaked July 21, 2006.
- Windows "Codename: Longhorn" Build 4039 – Leaked August 22, 2007. Includes full DWM and Glass and the most complete version of the Plex visual style.
- Windows "Codename: Longhorn" Build 4066 – Leaked December 20, 2008. (Despite Being a Server Build, contains features associated with desktop builds) Includes functioning DWM, Phodeo and Windows Media Player sidebar tile.
Fixes
Utilities
Demos
Tweak Guides
Wallpapers
DWM Skins
Longhorn Build 4074
Vista Build 5112
Vista Build 5219 (050824)
Note: some of these 3rd party gadgets have no author listed in any of the actual files, if you are the owner and would like credit please contact me.
Vista Build 5308
Note: some of these 3rd party gadgets have no author listed in any of the actual files, if you are the owner and would like credit please contact me.
Vista Build 5342
Note: some of these 3rd party gadgets have no author listed in any of the actual files, if you are the owner and would like credit please contact me.
Vista Build 5365
Note: some of these 3rd party gadgets have no author listed in any of the actual files, if you are the owner and would like credit please contact me.
Screenshots
Misc. Files
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