Windows Vista build 5112

Windows Vista build 5112 was officially released on 2005-07-27. It is one of the first Beta 1-class builds to be compiled, and certainly, the first Longhorn/Vista build to become widely available. At this point in development, Microsoft had decided that Windows Vista would be the final name of the operating system, hoping to boost the image and perception of the product among end users.

However, the name Longhorn was still used everywhere except for the build tag.

The Explorer shell had seen significant changes, including virtual folders, a new search interface, many new icons (mostly for the Control Panel), and a redesigned toolbar. The Aero theme looks similar to the RTM version, although the Aero Basic theme still has numerous differences when compared with the version of the theme that RTM'ed. .

This build also introduced many other features that were originally planned for "Longhorn", including the new networking and audio subsystems, and the .NET Framework 3.0 (still referred to as WinFX) which was nearly complete at the time this build was compiled. Changes to the operating system are now good enough to make certain utilities like TweakNT ineffective. All those featutres were however present in build 5098, and possibly as far back as 5059(vbl_ux)