lynch hit part of the tweaks:
http://www.techzonez.com/forums/show...&threadid=4387

I must caution you all, this is alpha software, and is not intended to be released to the general public... but I read on another forum that it might have been released intentionally to throw the general public off the real path that longhorn is taking...

I mean what if they released this with some trivial updates, that will never go into the released of the project codenamed Longhorn..

Now, on to more interesting matters.

Screenshots:

http://www.msfn.org/comments.php?catid=1&id=1375

Techzonez reported on the screenshot phenomenon several days ago:
http://www.techzonez.com/comments.ph...light=longhorn

Feast your eyes on that.


Below is an interesting site that outlines the road to longhorn with screenshots of some fake, and not fake builds. Unfortunately, they don't have build 4008 screenshots, but they do have some killer CD covers:
http://www.etplanet.com/windows/longhorn/

Couple things I noticed. When I booted from the LH cd, it looked like windowsPE the preinstall environment Operating system. In fact the installation was so unique it reminded me a lot of linux, only easier... which shocked the crap out of me.. there were no extra installation options, put the key in, click ok, ok, ok and 10 minutes later Longhorn was installed.

The following post, that is linked to the Techzonez frontpage news, talks more indetail about the preinstall environment installation of Longhorn:
http://www.techzonez.com/comments.ph...light=longhorn

Another thing I noticed, the sidebar was automatically installed, downloads work fine in Internet Explorer, it is much faster, the hard drive display kind of changed from the more strange looking green bars to a more basic XP look.

The theme of Longhorn as many of you may already know is called plex. It makes everything look really blue, from shades of light blue to extremely dark blue. Internet explorer looks like it has been blue dipped.

Longhorn also had windows media player 9 already installed, you just have to do the setup when you run it for the first time.

Couple of things I noticed about software installations:
YOu have to run almost everything in XP compatibility mode, even some drivers require it, like anything from Creative...

The ASPI layer from adaptec has to be run in compatibility mode as well. Which is perfectly understandable as those products were designed for windows XP.

Nvidia advanced properties do not show up in Longhorn.. when you install the latest drivers, 43.00.. the Geforce option is missing from the advanced display properties... so no tweaking open gl, Nview, AA, overclocking etc... there is no tab present.

Longhorn is not for the average tinkerer.. it is really a way for MS to test the waters of new possibilities, and in fact I would chance to say that most of the features that are talked about in this release will not even make it to Beta, much less RTM. So in the end this is just a taste of the LH yet to be.

Any questions just ask, however i cannot supply you with a link to this, any serialz, etc... sorry