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 buttons for all open windows, and it has remained this way ever since. The window tiles from earlier builds, which serve the same purpose, are still present, though. The Cabinet shell is now 32-bit (as stated by the new filename, ). Setup has seen some changes and now resembles the final Windows 95 setup more closely.

Start button and menu
Although this build still has three separate Start buttons and menus like build 58s, 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.