Microsoft’s Windows 95 was a huge leap from Windows 3.1. It was the first release of Windows with the Start menu, taskbar, and typical Windows desktop interface we still use today. Windows 95 won’t work on modern PC hardware, but you can still install it in a virtual machine and relive those glory days. By LeonBA 8 years ago In reply to Windows 95 CD wont boot? No, you would boot from floppy disk (either built-in, if your laptop has a built-in floppy drive, or from a USB floppy drive). I don't know why anyone thinks they need a win-9x 'boot floppy'. There is no such thing as a 'boot floppy' as far as I'm concerned. If you have access to a win-9x machine, then insert a floppy disk and go 'format c: a: /s'. You'll have a DOS on a bootable floppy disk. Copy these files to the floppy: - mscdex.exe - himem.sys - smartdrv.exe - emm386.exe You must find and copy one of these files to the floppy as well: - cdrom.sys - cdtech.sys - MTMCDAI.SYS If you can find all three, then do it. Create an autoexec.bat file on the floppy and put this in it: SMARTDRV.EXE A- B- C+ /V 4096 4096 /E:8192 /B:8192 MSCDEX.EXE /D:MTMIDE01 /V /S /M:8 create config.sys on the floppy and put this in it: DEVICE=HIMEM.SYS /verbose DEVICE=EMM386.EXE NOEMS D=64 A=15 VERBOSE DOS=HIGH,UMB rem DEVICEHIGH=CDROM.SYS /D:MSCD001 /DMA rem DEVICEHIGH=CDTECH.SYS /D:MSCD001 /UDMA2 /V rem DEVICEHIGH=MTMCDAI.SYS /D:MTMIDE01 Remove the 'rem' in front of ONE of the above lines that matches the cd-rom driver that you copied to the floppy. Change the computer's boot sequence so that the floppy drive is booted first, and boot from the floppy. Your CD -rom drive should now be accessible as the D drive. So put your win-95 cd in and change to the D drive at the DOS prompt and run setup from the CD. Alternatively, you could save yourself some time and connect the drive you want to install win-95 on to a running computer as a slave drive, format it on that computer, and copy the win-95 cd to that computer. Then remove the drive and re-connect it back to the installation computer and run setup from the hard drive. Edited June 2, 2011 by wsxedcrfv strikethrough and replace driveletter in order to prevent formatting the system drive. In November of 1985, Microsoft released Windows 1.0. And thus began Windows' 22-year reign (to date) as the world's most popular, most irritating computing platform. Which Windows features have been responsible for the most angst? We tallied this list of offenders with the advice of PC World editors and contributors as well as members of the. Our roster includes several kinds of worsts: Just plain bad ideas, good ideas gone awry, and a few ideas that started out terrible but eventually became surprisingly decent. Click on the images above to see 'em all, starting with number 20. In a day in which half a terabyte of hard disk costs $99, it's easy to forget that megabytes were once a rare and precious commodity, and disk-compression utilities felt slightly miraculous. Microsoft's DoubleSpace was introduced with DOS 6.0 in 1993; after a patent suit by competitor Stac Electronics, it was replaced with a non-infringing twin,, which was part of Windows 95. DriveSpace did indeed squeeze about twice the stuff onto a disk, but the risk was immense, since data recovery was much tougher if something went awry. Windows XP was the first version without DriveSpace support of any sort--by then, nobody noticed or cared.
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