Installing & Exploring Microsoft Windows 95!!

It's 1995, your computer is broken and you need to start from scratch... so let's go! We have our boot floppy and OEM Windows 95 Installation CD in hand... how hard could it be? Let's find out!! #nostalgia #retropc #aopen #vintage #windows95 #microsoft #windows

[LatitudeSky]

Ah memories. Started using PCs just with DOS. Man I loved DOS 6. But moved to Windows 3.1 and then Windows for Warehouses, I mean Workgroups, and 95. 95 was a huge game changer. A lot of it didn’t work but a lot did. It only got better from there. Today, I had to install two label printers on one Windows 11 PC. Stuff so old, it has Windows 95 drivers. The driver had an InstallShield interface. Haven't seen that in forever. Buy Windows 11 installed both printers, together, no conflicts and it just worked. This works today because of the work done over all these years to keep improving. Thanks Microsoft.

[ReallyBadSeed]

There's something just so satisfying about going back in time to watch the old Win95 install. It's hard to believe I graduated high school the year Win95 came out. I worked in a store that custom built PCs just like the one in your video, so I've done many Win95 installs. Nice trip back to 95.

[maxtornogood]

Back when I was young enough to use Windows 95 I wasn't quite smart enough to install operating systems (yet) 🤪. Appreciate you using true hardware to replicate the original installation experience 😀

[Vlame]

When I was young, around 6 years old (I'm 19 now), I already was into ICT. When I was around the age of 13, I discovered other operating systems like Win95 and virtual machines.

When I got my own place, I want to get some old hardware to experience the true experience of the older days!

[PappyNet]

I finally decided to take another look at my old Intergraph TD-25 computer, which I purchased in late 1996. I don't think I finished the installation correctly because a couple of weeks ago while starting this "Retro-Project" I learned that the computer system didn't recognize my CD's: I failed to install the CD Player. Anyway I am glad I found your channel and maybe I could get tips to complete my project.

[iabconsulting]

That problem with NO CD after initial boot was a real problem with 95. This is why I used to format the C drive manually and copy the files from the CD to the hard drive then run install from the hard drive. Learnt this trick the hard way. I believe you only need the win95 subdirectory of the CD.

[excess.subieflw]

Awesome video! Would be pretty neat to see another video doing the OSR2 upgrade installation. I think that had better usb support

[imminentdisaster]

So nostalgic. Payed $2200 for my win 95 pc in the mid 90s. Playing Tomb Raider and Dos games fond memories. Love win 95 theme tune " good times"

[bramvandenbroeck]

Man do i remember our first household pc, it was a pizza box pc. An Olivetti with matching keyboard, mouse and display! My mom got it for my dad, and the BIG new feature of this pc was Windows 95! It was a Pentium 1 75mhz with 32mb of ram! Good days! I played a lot of dos and early windows games like Deadly Tide, Need for Speed, Pod and Dungeon Keeper! All great games! What a trip down memory lane :p

[jdrs]

I once had a Microcomputer applications instructor back in 1995, when I was in High School. We started school with some old fashioned IBM computers that ran on a super old fashioned version of a Windows environment before Windows 3.1. He hated these old IBM machines and would often lose his sanity and gripe like hell over them. We came back from the weekend, in the early October month, and all those old IBM computers were long gone. There were some brand spanking new, tall, beautiful Gateway computers in their place now. He handed all of us a brand new copy of the Microsoft Windows 95 OS, and he had us all install it in each PC, and explained exactly what going on, as we inserted a floppy boot disk, wrote in a few commands on the command prompt, and force the computer to boot from the Windows setup CD in the CD ROM drive. He referred to all those new Gateway PCs as “IBM clones, ” and nothing else. He wouldn’t even call them workstations or computers.
He also had us all install Office, as well as other new Software, after the Windows Install.

The man was born in Mexico, had a heavy accent, and was a beast at working on those computers. His last name was Canales.
Best instructor ever!!!

[klwtherd]

This must have been the "C" version of Windows 95 because i don't remember all this "Plug and Play" goodness till Windows 98. That was one of the real benefits of WIndows 98 - full plug and play support.

[tookeydookey]

I love Windows 95! Our first PC was a HP Kayak XA PC and pretty sure it had it cuz according to images I found of the unit, the sticker said both 95 and NT 4.0 on it, pretty sure we never used NT 4.0. Could be wrong tho as I don't recall ever using it, for all I know it could've been a work PC LOL😆
Oh well, at least I remember playing on my 1999 Compaq Presario PC which we got afterwards (although our personal videos show the HP in the background in 2004 for some odd reason🤔)!

[thedungeondelver]

Man those ESS Audiodrive cards. God I hated them. My wife had one for a couple weeks and I literally threw it in the trash and tracked down a "cheap" soundblaster after the frustration with it. I could do a clean install of '95, go through the process of installing its driver (if Win95 tried to install its own driver, there was no fixing it, period - you had to nuke and pave and start over), actually HEAR SOUND - CD playback, multimedia, Windows game sound, etc., and once you rebooted after installing the driver...no sound. Card would have the ol' "Unknown multimedia device" and installing the sound driver again made no difference. Your alternative was to reinstall Windows again. Our "fix" so she could play Diablo, was to simply not reboot the computer. Picked up the SB at CompUSA and that was that.

[JARVIS]

Just saw you guessing the IE version. If the IE was version 4 or newer, the Windows Explorer would have had the back/forward/etc options and also the „show as website“ view. It is possible to update the IE to a newer version which also enables that.

[daveshmups]

Great video! I’ve never installed Windows 95; the first time I used it was in college in one of the computer labs on campus or in the library.

[georgez]

I still have my Gateway P5 133 16MB Ram and Matrox PCI Video card. Windows 95 and a dial up Modem. Install Crash Install. Good Times. Thanks for the Video.

[MotownBatman]

When I first saw that my Aunt had a copy she swiped from Work.
I opened that Floppy... How THE HELL AM I GONNA COPy All of THESE!

[josetuliao]

This is one of the best OS that I've used for long before I converted to LINUX.

[kyledowning]

Back when windows was close to the same size as FF7 on PS1.

[geov.]

Well done! About a year ago I built my first retro pc with win 98. Pentium 4 2, 6 Ghz, 512 mb ddr1, geforce fx 5200, asrock p4i65g m/b and it runs fine. I wish had my old cyrix 133mhz + win95 or my celeron 433 mhz builds but I threw them away back in the day (huge mistake!). I also had a 386dx4 with 4 mb ram with win 3.11 which i gave to a cousin..