As we don’t have a new Windows Insider build to test this week I am going back in time to 2005 and Windows Longhorn beta. In this video I look at build 5048 of Windows Longhorn, the project that would become Windows Vista. Windows Longhorn was designated to be the replacement for Windows XP and was a massive project with new UI concepts, new file system and integration with the .net framework.
Sep 02, 2020 Windows Vista build 5001 is among one of the first builds of Windows Vista to be compiled after the development reset of Windows 'Longhorn'. Images of this build were released by UX.Unleaked on May 1, 2008. On January 23, 2020, Grabberslasher, the owner of the website, announced that this build would be released to BetaArchive. This Is Windows Longhorn Build 5048 Witch Is A New Beta Of Windows Vista Longhorn Bios Date No Product Key TCP8W-T8PQJ-WWRRH-QH76C-99FBW Addeddate 2020-02-27 06:28:41.
In 2004 Microsoft reset the Longhorn project due to splitting time scales, problems with stability and the new focus on Trustworthy Computing and they started again using Windows Server 2003 as a base so Longhorn never made it to the finished product.
I look at the UI and features in the build and see the changes to the OS. By way of comparison checkout my video of the pre-reset build of Windows Longhorn and you can see why many people thought this was a step back.
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Run Microsoft’s Windows “Longhorn” today using these activation cracks for each build. Simply replace the “winlogon.exe” in your System32 folder with the copies contained in the ZIP below.
There are two ways to do this. The first is to replace it from within the Windows install itself. This will mean that your Longhorn installation must be fully functional first. You cannot delete winlogon.exe – it’s in use. You can, however, rename it – simply rename it to “winlogon.bak” or something similar. Then copy in the copy from the archive below. Now restart your installation and it should now no longer check the activation at logon. This means you can move the date forward to the correct time. You can also now delete the “winlogon.bak” file from System32 if you wish, though it’s advisable to keep it to hand in case something breaks later.
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The second method is to replace it offline. This requires you to be able to connect the hard drive to a working PC, or if it is in a virtual machine, to mount the virtual drive either on your host operating system or in another virtual machine with a working Windows install. Once you have done this, you can simply navigate to that drives' System32 folder and drag-and-drop the winlogon.exe in to replace the existing copy with the patched copy from the archive below.
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Note that, although the cracks below remove the need of activation, they do not alter or remove the 180 day usage restriction (time-bomb) that may be present in the build. To remove the time-bomb you will need another tool, called TweakNT.