Windows 8 build 7779

Windows 8 build 7779 is a build of Windows 8, which was uploaded on 27 June 2022.

This is the last known build to include Getting Started and to contain the option to enable the Windows Classic theme in the Control Panel.

New features and changes

 * Centered title bar text has been reintroduced. It was last featured in Windows Longhorn build 4005.
 * Redpill is now functional (in the previous build, twinui.dll was just a stub), but the start screen displays nothing but "(Launcher)" in the center of the screen due to a bug in the DirectUI XML styling. The Metro Horizon has also been implemented.

ISO mounting
This build is the first build to natively support mounting of ISO disc images; a "Mount" option has been added on the right-click menu of ISO image files for this purpose.

Multimonitor taskbar
This build adds the ability for the taskbar to be displayed on multiple monitors. It works substantially better than 7788's implementation, such as working on more than two monitors.

Ribbon
This is the first build to include the Explorer Ribbon. However, it uses a unique registry key not in any other build and therefore will not be dropped by Redlock.

To enable the Ribbon, copy this to a registry file and open it, or add the key manually: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced] "RibbonizeMePlease"=dword:00000001

Windows Store
This build's Windows Store is identical to build 7777, and can be patched in the same way as that build.

Watermark
The "Windows 7" section of the watermark has had its size changed due to the increasing of the title bar text size.

Redpill
Redpill is now functional (in the previous build, twinui.dll was just a stub), but the start screen displays (Launcher) due to a bug in the DirectUI XML styling. The Metro Horizon has also been implemented.

Ribbon
This is the first build to include the Explorer Ribbon. However, it uses a unique registry key not in any other build and therefore will not be dropped by Redlock.

To enable the Ribbon, copy this to a registry file and open it, or add the key manually: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced] "RibbonizeMePlease"=dword:00000001

Windows Store
This build's Windows Store is identical to build 7777, and can be patched in the same way as that build.

Hyper-V
If Hyper-V boot fails, messages asking the user to enable virtual machine extensions will be printed directly onto the boot screen instead of being spewed as an Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) log.

Watermark
The "Windows 7" section of the watermark has had its size changed due to the increasing of the title bar text size.

DWM and Aero

 * The Aero functionalities do not work on modern versions of VMware Workstation and above due to changes that are incompatible with the graphics stack. Using either VirtualBox or VMware with the 9.x hardware compatibility or older and using 9.x drivers or older is recommended.
 * This build appears to have a slightly broken Windows Aero theme, with only the top portion of the window frame using the blur effect, leaving the side borders transparent.

Help and Support Center
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