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- ...that a Nashville Plus Pack build of Internet Explorer 4 had its page loading animation being a humorous banner of the Internet Explorer icon kicking the Mozilla mascot to jab at its competition with Netscape at the time?
- ...that Windows 95 build 58s includes a hidden tabbed mode in the Cabinet?
- ...that early builds of Windows Me replaced the safe to shutdown screen with a blue screen due to the removal of real-mode MS-DOS?
- ...that the Windows XP team created a decoy theme in order to prevent any leaks about Luna?
- ...that Windows 1.0 and Windows 2.x have a hidden easter egg with a list of members of the Windows team?
- ...that Windows NT 3.5 build 612 has a debug flag for
winnt.exe,/I_am_TedM, in order to bypass the error to run the DOS-based setup in NTVDM?
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Windows 7 build 6946 is a build of Windows 7, which was shared on 19 October 2024 along with its server counterpart.
It introduces overhauls across many internally-facing system surfaces such as the addition of API function redirection stubs, overhauls to existing encryption and troubleshooting facilities, and implements a variety of quality-of-life changes with regards to the system shell, in particular task management and the ability to share media through the Windows Media Player application.
