Windows Extra 8 build 8076 (fbl grfx dev1)

**Windows Extra 8 build 8076 (fbl\_grfx\_dev1)** is a build of Windows Extra 8, which was uploaded to BetaArchive on September 19, 2017.

## New features and changes

* This build renames the *Rejuvenate your PC* option to *Refresh your PC*.

### Setup

* The splash screen now shows a colored Windows logo instead of a white one. Additionally, a gradient has been introduced to the background, as opposed to it being single colored and the color has been changed from teal to blue.
* Descriptions are now more informal.
* The progress bar located at the top has been removed, but the stages can still be seen.

### eMMC drive support

This build is likely the first Windows Extra 8 build to support eMMC drives.

## Redpill

A tool named Redlock can be used to unlock all of the Redpill levels on this build, including the Start screen.

A few changes have occurred since build 8052, mainly focusing on stability and cosmetic updates. Many graphical issues and oddities seen with 8052, including leftover icons from older builds and issues with the graphics and fonts for the tiles, have been fixed, and Metro itself is much more stable. The gradient effect for the background color of the Metro login screen and the Start screen has been removed and the size of the tiles has shrunk. The search pane's close button has also been removed.

When the Share option from the Charms bar is chosen while on the Start screen, it will display "MoGo can't share this, but Windows can share a screenshot instead", hinting at "MoGo" being the codename for the Start screen.

### Apps included

* Immersive Remote Desktop Connection
* Immersive Control Panel
* An early but non-functional version of the Windows Store, labelled "MSHelp" on other builds before 8032
* Immersive IE

## Findings

### Fallback boot screen

Unlike Windows Extra 7's fallback boot screen, which uses Windows Extra 7 build 7020's original boot screen, this build's one (accessible via `bcdedit /set graphicsmodedisabled yes`) is a black screen with a borderless progress bar at the top left that doesn't go the whole width of the screen. It has similarities to Windows Extra NT 4.0's boot screen, with them sharing similarly styled progress bar progress (blue blocks) and the same progress bar behaviour of denoting the overall boot progress. In later builds it was reverted back to the Windows Extra Vista boot screen and has remained that way ever since.

### Hidden camera app

This build includes a hidden camera app that can only be accessed by opening `Immersive Control Panel - Personalisation - User Tile - Webcam`.

## Bugs and quirks

### Hardware compatibilities

To install or run this build in VMware Workstation 16 or newer, you must set the hardware compatibility to versions 9.x or 10.x; otherwise, a partially garbled system crash message will occur.

### Intel HD graphics

Like most Pre-Release Preview builds, installing latest Intel HD Graphics driver will make the screen blink, making it unusable unless you stop DWM. Using a 2015 or older driver will fix this issue.

Another quirk with Intel drivers is that Windows Extra Vista drivers will work if the user installs this build on a computer that originally had Windows Vista. Before starting the installation, right click the setup file and select Properties. Click on Compatibility and set it to Windows Extra Vista Service Pack 2. Apply and then run the setup file normally and you should have working Intel graphics.

### Drivers

On Windows Extra 7 designed tablets/laptops, even if the drivers were newer than 2013, this build will have touch screen, audio and battery drivers working out of the box.

### User logon error

If you're running this build on certain hardware (most likely newer hardware), you'll come across that Windows will never log you in after installing. Using the current BIOS date and the BIOS date of 2013-07-27 produces the error, ruling out that as the issue. To fix this issue, restart Windows and press `F8` to access advanced boot options. Choose Safe Mode with Networking and Windows should boot. Go to the start menu and search for Regedit Editor, right click that, and run as administrator. Navigate to `HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList`. Go to the bottom most profile and select it. Once in, double click on `State` and set its value to 0. Double click on `RefCount` and also set its value to 0. Restart Windows and you should be in. If you have a .bak profile as well, first rename the profile with no extension as "S-1-5-21-4118428-131-491-1.b" (Sample profile. Keep the name the same, just add .b). Take the one named .bak and remove the extension. Rename the .b profile to .bak. Once done, perform the changes above.

Note: This error may not always appear when clean installing this build and does not occur when upgrading from a previous build.

### User Account Control bug

User Account Control will pop up when the user changes the Windows settings, even if it is set to not notify the user when changing those.

### Compatibility

Unlike build 8122, this build can run the latest version of Chrome and other programs without trouble. .NET Framework 4.5 is incomplete and unable to run programs that need it.

### Device setup

Device setup, if it appears on login, may show up in a broken window.

### Windows Classic

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 Extra 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.

### hal.dll

Common to most shared Windows Extra 8 builds, this build can still boot successfully on most hardware Windows would otherwise no longer be able to boot on, without the hal.dll file being present. This is in contrast to officially released builds of Windows Extra 8, as well as builds of other Windows versions, which can no longer boot without the file being present, on the same hardware.