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Windows 95 is a consumer-oriented graphical user interface-based operating system.

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Was Windows 95 an Operating System?

This question maybe a bit historical, but we didn't have Superuser at the time. Around 2000 when I was starting my Computer science degree, a subject was Operating systems. The teacher asked us to list a few OS. I said Windows 95. I was immediately…
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Virtualise a physical Windows 95 PC

I recently found my old Windows 95 PC in the attic. Is it possible to virtualise it before I dispose of the hardware? What is the best way of achieving this? The machine doesn’t have USB. I might be able to find a network card for it. Would ripping…
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Can Wine emulate Windows 95?

I have VirtualPool2 for Windows 95, but recently the CD drive has not been working on my Windows 95 machine. VPool only supports Windows 95, so I can't run it in Wine, it detects Wine as a Windows NT environment. Is there some way to configure Wine…
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Error when booting up a Windows 95 virtual machine in Windows Virtual PC

I tried to install Windows 95 on a Windows Virtual PC virtual machine, but when I am trying to run it post installation, I got an error during boot: When initializing device IOS: Windows protection error. You need to restart your computer. When I…
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How to run a MS-DOS/Win9x batch file containing CD while preserving the original working directory?

Consider the following batch file test.bat: CD C:\SOFTWARE program.exe This script is run from C:\ELSWHERE C:\ELSWHERE> C:\test.bat After the script exits the current working directory is now C:\SOFTWARE and not the previous working directory…
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Troubleshooting very old software hanging in Windows 10

I'm on a 64-bit built computer, recently upgraded from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 x64. A not-so-tech-savy frend of mine uses a very old program called "Corel PrintHouse Magic", and has years of work saved in this program's format. On Windows XP, and…
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Make sure a Windows 95 computer doesn't have any viruses?

I have an old Windows 95 computer that appears to be full of malware. I can't connect it to the internet (because I don't have dial-up anymore) but I want to take out all of the viruses off there. Is there an antivirus compatible with Windows 95…
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Tips for running Windows 95 inside of VMWare Workstation 7?

I have a number of old games I'd like to play which seem to only run well inside of Windows 95. I therefore have endeavored to get a Windows 95 installation running inside of VMWare. However, when I try to install VMWare Tools, I receive an "illegal…
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Windows 95 - desktop larger than screen resolution

I remember using a computer with Windows installed, and it had not one, but two resolution settings in Display Properties - one for the screen, the other for the desktop itself, and if the desktop resolution was larger than screen's, you could use…
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Windows 95 as guest on VirtualBox Mac OS X Host - Successful installed, but boot fails

I am running VirtualBox (Version 5.0.20 r106931) on a MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014; 2.2 GHz Intel Core i7; 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3) with OS X El Capitan (10.11.4). I already installed Windows 95 following this tutorial:…
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How to transfer file from Windows95 in VMWare to Host OS?

How can I transfer files from Virtual Windows 95 to Host (Windows 10) ? I tried many things: Enable copy and paste in Guest Isolation Enable shared folders option but it isn't supported in Windows 95 Tried USB connection but Windows 95 doesn't see…
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Shutdown from a bat file *without* close process confirmation in windows 95

Every single guide on the net says to use RUNDLL USER.EXE,ExitWindows which works... from the run command However, when run from a bat file, this command, although it works, requests confirmation to kill the 'remaining' processes. That process is…
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How can I connect an external hard drive to a Windows 95 computer?

I have an old Windows 95 computer at home. It's a Dell Dimension XPS D266. I've decided to get rid of it, but first I want to get all of the data off of it. It has a 16 GB hard drive, and I have a new 3 TB external hard drive that I thought I could…
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How to recover files from Windows 95

Possible Duplicate: Best way to get data off a computer with no support for USB or ethernet? I have a friend, he has a computer that has windows 95 operating system. he is using Lotus with it. and he has very important document in this computer.…
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Why does Windows 11 window turn into Windows 95 window for a few seconds after the close command?

Problem I have a window that when I send the close command, for a few seconds it turns into a Windows 95 window before the window closes. Before close Few seconds after close command My computer is on windows 11, and I'm using python…
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