Windows 95 build 73g

Windows 95 build 73g is part of the Chicago Preliminary Development Kit 2 (PDK2), and a milestone 5 build. It was compiled on 1993-12-03 and is a pre-beta build of Windows 95, known at this phase in development by its codename "Chicago". Unlike its predecessor, build 73f, this build was distributed to external testers and developers.

The taskbar has been redesigned and no longer serves as a tray for files and folders, instead showing all open windows, and it has remained this way ever since. The older window tiles, which serve the same purpose, from earlier builds are still present, though.

Although this build still has the three separate Start buttons and menus, it already contains the necessary resources to enable a single unified Start menu (but not the single button), similar to that in build 81. A tutorial on how to remove the two extra buttons and display only the unified menu is available on BetaArchive.