Longhorn is also filled with bugs of course, some might be overlooked but some might be annoying and leading to crashes or freeze your PC. Windows Explorer tends to leak memory after a while, but in this build minimizing the My Computer window somehow seems to fix the memory leak.Ĭonclusion: using Longhorn as a main, like, really MAIN OS is definitely not a good idea, because some drivers might not work correctly and some might not install at all. I installed an old version of Adobe Reader from that era to read a few PDF files, I also installed 7-Zip and Office 2003, it all went smoothly. The wireless driver doesn't work either, so I can't connect it to the internet (not that I could have done much after all, one of the most recent browsers Longhorn supports is Firefox 12, but I could have browsed Wikipedia and a few other websites I like maybe). Sadly, there's a slight probability that the graphics driver could crash out of nowhere, and I have no way of replacing this driver because it comes bundled with the OS itself, and it won't accept another driver that is not made specifically for Longhorn apparently. After disabling WinFS, Windows Messenger and Outlook Express from the Windows Component Wizard (just to clean a few useless stuff up), the OS started to run as smooth as Windows XP. I have a laptop from 2003 where I've tested a lot of Longhorn builds, I ended up installing build 4029.Lab06_n in the first partition.
