Windows Nashville build 999

Windows Nashville build 999 is a build of Windows Nashville that was found on the third disc in the Crazybytes 5 warez CD compilation and originally scene leaked in December 1995. It is currently the only available build of Nashville.

The "Windows 95" branding is still present in most places, except in Add/Remove Programs, where it claims to be "Windows 96" if chosen to keep uninstall files, and also in the  program on the startup utility disk. The  command in Command Prompt also has different branding, reporting it as.

New features and changes

 * Infrared driver support is installed in this build by default.
 * Remote Procedure Call DLLs have been compiled with debug symbols.

Shell features

 * The sliding effect for menus is also included.
 * This build includes a near-final version of Internet Explorer 2, but with very early shell integration added on top. This includes changes to Windows Explorer that allow you to open websites or e-mail in the same Explorer window. However, the overall size of the Internet Explorer installation is much smaller than usual, and it is not possible to browse the web without installing a regular version of Internet Explorer on top. This way a proper   is installed, but it also seems to break the integrated web browsing capability.
 * Single click activate is added and can be enabled in the Folder Options. Alongside, hovering over icons results in the link being blue.
 * This build introduces the Mouse Highlight feature in appearance settings, which is set to the colour red by default and provides a highlight effect in the specified colour on window elements such as the close button. This feature would return in build 1351 of Windows 98, only to be removed again later on. This feature has, to date, never been included in a released version of Windows.
 * The OLE document file properties page has been updated and now includes Custom and Contents tabs.
 * The Shell Scrap/Document Shortcut viewer has been updated and now includes a preview pane.

Application features

 * This build contains "Athena PIM", which was ultimately released as Microsoft Internet Mail and News in 1996 and later evolved into Outlook Express. The version of Athena PIM is 1.00.046 and the components for it is in the file.
 * The System Information application has been added and can be run via.
 * MSN components have been updated to a slightly newer version.
 * Microsoft Phone and Microsoft Voice have been added.
 * The Microsoft Visual C/C++ 4.0 runtime library is now included.

Control Panel features

 * This build includes Power properties in the Control Panel by default, even if a battery is not installed.
 * Internet properties is included, which has the AutoDial properties and the ability to set up a proxy server.
 * Display Properties can show a settings icon on the taskbar.

USB support

 * It looks like that USB support was one of the planned features for Nashville. Although USB is listed among installable devices, it looks like there are no drivers included yet for it.

Installation
Installation is similar to installing an upgrade version of Windows 95, but it doesn't always work and may BSOD during the second stage of setup. However, this can be fixed. An easier way of installing this build without having to upgrade from a previous build is to create a dummy  on the hard drive to trick Setup into thinking that Windows NT was installed.

Note: This build will not upgrade from Windows 95 if Windows 95 was installed on a FAT32 partition.

File differences
The following files have been introduced or removed compared to build 950 r-6: