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Windows 7 - Unlock the new taskbar from build 6.1.6933

e Windows 7 version that was handed out to the attendees of the Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles contained features that were locked in the build by Microsoft. You might remember that Microsoft did a presentation of the desktop elements of Windows 7 at the conference and that part of the presentation was the new taskbar of Windows 7. The build that the attendees of the conference received was apparently a different one from the one that was used for presentation as it did not include the new features of the taskbar. (build 6801)

The features were available in that build as well but locked by Microsoft.

The steps to unlock those features are the following:

Download the 32-bit or 64-bit executable and put it into the Windows directory.
Start a command prompt as an administrator and issue the following commands :

Code: takeown /f %windir%\explorer.exe
cacls %windir%\explorer.exe /E /G MyUserName:F (replacing MyUserName with your username)
taskkill /im explorer.exe /f
cd %windir%
start unlockProtectedFeatures.exe

Relaunch the shell by clicking on the Launch button afterwards to enable the new features including the new Windows 7 taskbar.

32-bit executable:

PHP Code:

   http://rapidshare.com/files/160318111/upf_x86_rev0.zip

64-bit executable:
  
  http://rapidshare.com/files/160318364/upf_x64_rev0.zip


This is no fake, here's a screenshot with wbb opened on this topic: