Windows 8 build 8056 (fbl_grfx_dev1)
| Build of Windows 8 | |
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| OS family | Windows NT |
|---|---|
| Version number | 6.2 |
| Build number | 8056 |
| Build revision | 0 |
| Architecture | x86, x64 |
| Build lab | fbl_grfx_dev1 |
| Compiled on | 2011-07-27 |
| Expiration date | |
| Timebomb | 2012-03-11 (+228 days) |
| Product key | |
| H9VCT-63NFW-FWHDR-F4J43-972K8 | |
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Windows 8 build 8056 (fbl_grfx_dev1) is a build of Windows 8, which was uploaded to BetaArchive on 19 September 2015.[1]
New features and changes[edit | edit source]
Interface[edit | edit source]
Stability improvements and bugfixes for the user interface have been introduced over the previous build. Issues pertaining to wrong font colors and invalid application names being displayed on tiles have been addressed, and minor cosmetic changes have been made to allow more items to fit onto the start screen.[a] Tile designs for non-Metro application shortcut tiles have also been updated to use a white font color in place of the previous dark shades, likely due to potential accessibility problems presented within the older designs. Font hinting on page headers have been adjusted. New tile designs for the Windows Store, Immersive Control Panel, Remote Desktop and Internet Explorer applications have been added to the operating system.
Iconography improvements have also been made across the start screen user interface, and minor alterations to the small application tile view and user tile designs were added. The Settings charm has been updated to include a dedicated icon for the Start screen (with preference options removed), and its respective quick settings design has been altered significantly to include a more compact design; the black background seen at the bottom of the design has been replaced with a small separator.
Sizing adjustments were made to the left-hand charms menu, and time and date readouts are now displayed at the right-hand side of the screen whenever the user invokes it. Grayscale anti-aliasing and translucency are now used in the aforementioned readouts. The left-hand charms menu design has been updated to use a lighter hover button color, and text has been distanced further away from the icon designs.
The logon screen has been updated to feature more consistent text input and button designs.
Windows Boot Manager[edit | edit source]
The Windows Boot Manager now includes a new simplified design for unrecoverable boot errors, containing short instructions on how one can recover a non-functional operating system install. It can be shown by disabling legacy console output through invocation of the following command with administrative privileges, where {GUID} refers to the globally unique identifier (GUID) for an existing operating system's BCD entry or the default/current OS entry ({default}/{current}):
bcdedit /set {GUID} custom:250000c2 1
This BCD variable would later be renamed to BootMenuPolicy in later Windows 8 builds; it is also used to display the new boot options menu design (hosted within the default operating system install) and the reworked Windows Recovery Environment full-screen menu design.
Miscellaneous[edit | edit source]
The System Reset and History Vault options have been respectively renamed to Refresh your PC and File History, and support for DVD playback has been removed along with the associated codecs - these would briefly return with the introduction of the optional Professional Plus/Pro with Media Center SKUs found in newer Windows 8 builds.
Support for enabling the older fallback Windows XP boot screen handling code (enabled by toggling on GraphicsModeDisabled in the boot configuration data) has been temporarily removed; in place of its role is a simple progress bar against a black background that simply reports the current status of the Windows boot process, which can be turned on in the same way. The aforementioned code would later be reimplemented in subsequent builds.
Bugs and quirks[edit | edit source]
Hardware compatibility[edit | edit source]
To install or run this build in VMware Workstation 15 or newer, the hardware compatibility version must be set to versions 8.x/9.x; otherwise, a partially garbled early-boot error will occur. Moreover, take into account that if you install this build (and Redlock) on VirtualBox, the system will be unstable/unusable.
Device setup[edit | edit source]
Device setup windows may not display properly.
Windows Classic[edit | edit source]
This build's Windows Classic fallback style is much flatter than usual, with a broken title bar gradient (only shown in places such as Windows Classic appearance managers from older versions of Windows NT), and controls lacking Windows Classic's lighter shine in most places, with some controls visually losing all their borders like the taskbar's system tray. Additionally, if Classic is forced on Explorer the Back/Forward buttons in Explorer are misaligned with the Back/Forward/Recent outline.
Gallery[edit | edit source]
Windows Setup[edit | edit source]
Ramdisk load progress
Autorun
Upgrade setup
Second phase of setup (hardware detection)
Out-of-box experience[edit | edit source]
Out-of-box experience initialization
Computer name
Redpill-specific[edit | edit source]
Initial onboarding animation
Personalization
Finalization
Interface[edit | edit source]
System crash
Login screen
Start menu
System properties
Desktop without start button
Aero theme
Aero Lite theme
Redpill-specific[edit | edit source]
Metro UI[edit | edit source]
Boot error
Lock screen
Logon screen
Start screen
Zoomed out view
Applications list
Left-hand charm menu
Right-hand charms bar (⊞ Win+⇧ Shift+C)
Search charm
Settings charm
Share charm
Security options
Demo
Desktop UI[edit | edit source]
Redpilled desktop
On-screen keyboard
Windows Explorer
Modern Task Manager
Ditto
Aero theme (Redpilled)
Aero Lite theme (Redpilled)
Metro apps[edit | edit source]
Metro Control Panel
Immersive IE
Windows Store
Remote Desktop Connection
Webcam
Miscellaneous[edit | edit source]
Device setup display bug
Notes[edit | edit source]
- ↑ At a default resolution of 1024×768 pixels, up to four tiles can be vertically pinned onto the start screen in contrast to the previous build, which only allowed up to three.