Windows 95 build 180

Windows 95 build 180 is the Beta 1.3 release of Windows 95. It was scene leaked in 1994 and mislabeled as build 177, then found again and shared on OSBetaArchive by Overdoze on 13 December 2015. It comes on 14 floppy disks (disk 1 is 1.44MB, the others are DMF-formatted).

In this build the background colour by default is now darker, compared to previous builds. Also, Network Neighborhood and the Recycle Bin are back to the desktop, but latter is now called "Wastebasket". The boot screen dates this build as a September 1994 build. Also, the beta 1 reference has been removed and it is the last "Chicago" boot screen, as build 189 refers already to Windows 95.

LAYOUT.INF issue
in  on disk 2 is for the 19 disk 1.44MB floppy release of this build. This means setup cannot find files in the CAB archives it expects, which makes the installation impossible without modifications. One way to bypass this problem is to swap the wrong  with a fixed one during installation. To do this:


 * 1) Start the installation as usual and get to the welcome screen, then stop there.
 * 2) You have to save the state of the virtual machine (depends on the hypervisor/emulator you're using) as you can't leave setup to swap  . However, if you're running setup on Windows 3.1x, you can also switch to File Manager via Alt-Tab or Task Manager to change the file.
 * 3) Mount the virtual hard disk (VHD) in Disk Management or open it with WinImage. This step can be skipped if setup was run from Windows 3.1x.
 * 4) Navigate to   and replace   you will find there with the one provided separately with the installation disks.
 * 5) Dismount the VHD (or close WinImage or File Manager), then resume the virtual machine.
 * 6) Install the build as usual.

It is important you do this after setup has already copied files it needs from disks 1 and 2 to the hard drive and before it reads  for file locations in CAB archives. Therefore, this is best done on the welcome screen.

An alternative solution is to place the requested files on another floppy disk and point to the setup to that.