LGR 486 Upgrade! Installing & Enjoying Windows 95

The LGR Woodgrain 486 computer needs an update... to the year 1995! I've got a sealed, new in box copy of Microsoft Windows 95 to unbox (on both floppy disk and CD-ROM!) so let's install everything on top of Windows 3.1 and have fun with some classic 90s PC games and software.

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00:00 Introducing Windows 95
03:15 Unboxing the CD-ROM Upgrade
09:40 Windows 95 in 1995. Such HYPE!
12:23 Installing It... From Floppy Disks
16:59 The Raw Windows 95 Experience
19:22 DOOM+DOS games under Windows
21:58 What's Here, What's Not
24:33 The "Funstuff" Folder
26:05 Hover!
27:36 Those OpenGL 3D Screensavers
30:39 Microsoft Plus! Companion
34:59 3D Pinball Space Cadet
37:02 Duke 3D Windows Themes
38:21 Lode Runner The Mad Monks' Revenge
39:36 Age of Empires
41:00 Need For Speed II on a 486?
43:17 Outroduction

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[YouCantUnhearThis]

Imagining traveling back in time and explaining to someone in the mid-90s that someday in the future, millions of people would spend 45+ minutes watching someone else install a Windows 95 upgrade...just for fun. 😎

[gassmanet]

Oh man, my grandfather taught me how to use windows 95 when I was 6. Our mom had set the home computer to boot in DOS, thinking it'd keep us from the games (spoiler: it taught us how to read and type).
I dunno why my grandfather was so "with it". He kept being with it 'till the end. Win 95 colours still remind me of him, thanks for posting this blast from the past!

[AvengerDK]

Man. I remember getting Windows 95 and spending around 8 hours of a LAN party to get local network shares to work. The ability to browse a friends shared files while doing other stuff was amazing.

[steezydeezy]

As a kid born in the late 90s, my very first interactions with computers were from using windows 95/98 machines and playing games like the sims and rainbow six with my brothers. Your videos always give me a huge nostalgia trip to those days. Thanks for the content!

[AkosJaccik]

34:10 - When it comes to soft power switching and the "You can now turn off your computer" message, it was the opposite experience for me, as a kid. My mind was completely blown how the PC can _turn itself off._ Like, no need to press a button, it's just... it turns off! It seemed like a wild concept. Then again, I similarly enjoyed how you could open and close a CD tray through software.

[craigj]

I was managing a software store when Windows 95 came out. Since we were a Microsoft gold reseller we got to co-host the local launch party. Win 95 was an incredibly big event. We had been using the Beta for months so we were used to the software but it was still amazing to see the reaction to it.

[Goldom]

I still remember when I was a kid and did the 95 upgrade on our family PC, because of course I knew more about the thing than my parents even at whatever young age. When the 95 boot screen came up, I remember running to get my parents, because "this is a historic moment!" I don't think they thought so. But the fact I still remember it says otherwise!

[Parshath]

I remember my dad bringing home our first computer sometime in 1996. It was a black Compaq Presario 2200 running Windows 95. It came with Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia and I nearly wore that CD out exploring every topic it had to offer. After that our whole family was playing Hover and we were all trying to beat each other's high scores, and one day my dad brought home Star Trek Borg and I fell in love with that right along side him. Even though we don't have that computer anymore, several years ago I found the exact model for sale and picked it up. With some work I got it running again and installed Windows 95 on it from the restore disks. I love having that PC just for all the memories and early computer knowledge it gave me.

[davebrogan]

I remember going to a launch party at Incredible Universe and it was, well, incredible! The excitement and energy in the crowd was so fantastic! My family didn’t “get it” and thought I was crazy going to a “party” at an electronics store. Windows 95 was everything that it was hyped to be. What an awesome memory. Thanks for the video!

[Xyklonikus]

I remember when this came out. I was 15 and my friend and I (working together today as developers) were interning at an office/computer store. When we unpacked disks we brought from home the store owner just said "I'm going to meet a client... thus I never saw anything." That night I upgraded at home. Good days

[GetVladimir]

I don't think I've ever heard the actual MIDI music of 3D Pinball before.

This was such an amazing video! Thank you so much for creating it and for making us part of the opening experience.

That classic cloud loading intro of Windows 95 is still one of my favorites.

[LonSeidman]

A relatively local CompUSA had a midnight sale for Windows 95 on August 24th - I was so excited. What sweetened the deal was that they were selling RAM dirt cheap that night and I was able to upgrade my machine from 8 megs to 16!

[Francois_L_]

Yes... memories. When Win 95 came out, I had been rocking the final Beta version on my 486DX2-66 for about 6 months. When people from school were coming over, you should have seen their faces when they saw that I wasn't running 3.11 anymore!

[DJTI]

I got my first IT job just before 95 came out. As an IT professional, it was a godsend. It was so buggy and insecure, that I never had to worry about not having a job.

[boris]

Holy cow! I spent tens of hours in Space Cadet with XP and just now I learned that it had music. And such an awesome tune!
Thank you so much for your videos, Clint! They bring me so much joy in such... uneasy times. Hope everything will be alright in the coming times.

[EriolGaurhoth]

That error sound remix is why your channel is the best retro tech channel on YouTube.

[johncranston]

I count myself fortunate to have lived through these times as a teenager, windows 95 was a huge change and then access to the internet blew my tiny mind. Thanks for the nostalgia trip 🙏

[Digr]

When my father's company upgraded their comouters to Windows 95, the old 386 units with MSDOS were put up for sale. Dad bought 2 and brought them home for my sister and I to learn how to to type and use a computer. So many good memories playing games like Crystal Caves and Duke Nukem!

[gregoryschaiberger]

My first computer was an Acer Aspire with windows 95 in 1995. I remember The Rolling Stones commercial. I also 3 years later when windows 98 came out which was Also hyped big time. I bought it the release date. The start menu was so innovative that when they tried to remove it (windows 8) everyone complained. Thanks for the nostalgia, Clint.

[DCCoreDrive]

The error sound loop mixed with the beat cracked me up, brilliant 😀