Installing & Exploring Microsoft Windows 95!! 

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.

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.

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.

My first OS was DOS+Windows 3.1. I was foolish kid and knew nothing about DOS or Win3.1 back in 1995/1996. Everything was beautiful. Windows 95 was a major step in computing. Cleaner interfae, more intuitive, full of goodies. I really enjoyed messing with Windows 95 on a Compaq Presario.

I used to upgrade my PCs with used parts, back when there were several sellers, one of which was Canada Computers, the original store in Kingston. I'd buy RAM from them, sometimes a processor. There were two shops that sold outdated parts and I bought a previously enjoyed copy of Win 95 "B" with USB support. It was OEM only. Unfortunately I have no hardware old enough to run DOS 6.22, Win 3.11 and Win 95. I want a complete old PC with a Pentium 100, and all the necessary cards and drives. I shoulda kept some of it.

I like your content very much

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"

Fantastic video, thanks man! I would love to see one of these of all of the Windows versions. I feel like you may have done 98, but XP, ME, Vista, 2000...The dream(s). EDIT: You totally have and I found them 😂

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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.

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

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 😀

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

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🤔)!

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.

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.

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.

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

Have you considered installing Microsoft Plus! and IE4?

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.

i know, i'm weird, but since that foreshadowing of creating a start up disk i was looking forward to the process of doing so. quite a little bit anticlimatic to not hear the sound and wait for an eternity to finish. great video anyway =)

Hello awesome video, I managed to complete a level in minesweeper once and i was so satisfied 😂 that i never played again, ever. 😂😂😂😂 Just solitare.

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

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

HEHE I like how you skip over the product key.. Honestly you did not need to, you can literally put random numbers in the other fields then in the middle put a multiple of 7 and it works. You can do something similar with windows 98.

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!

Hhhmmm my win 95 burned copy only said r2 so I’m not sure if that has anything to do with no sound drivers or not

Was that "joystick" at 29:32 growing, or is it just me? 🙂

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.

I wonder if that audio driver disk would help my compaq 1530dm no sound issue….I thought windows 95 had generic drivers for it?

Great👍

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!!!

I want to install windows 95 on a PC, do you have links to the needed materials? thanks

Hey! That ess install screen is what my laptop doesn’t have……..that’s what I’m missing

Awesome another RR video!

Solid platform with lots of fun games

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..

Eight plus three rocks

It was called File Manager in Windows 3.1. 95 introduced the Explorer.

i have the windows 95 cd , mine says usb support ,, i just installed windows 95 very good instructions

People who tried to install windows 95 to a virtual machine when watching

I can't get it to do anything with CD an when I try to do it w floppy an it gets to where it suppose to load it but instead it has 5 other choices an then wants a A:// ?

Can you install Microsoft Plus?

Hi Can you make a video about how to install windows nt 4.0 please.

Man windows 98 was so much easier to install

I remember, when I found, that you need to copy win95 folder from CD to c: after formating disk I was a king, I was first around in my neighbourhood, who know how to install windows95 without that first annoying error with missing cdrom drive😂😂😂

Impressive video!👏👏👏👏👍☺

Hi, TheRetroRecall i just wanted to say that can you install Windows 95 with a bootable flash drive on a modern PC? I have tested the Windows XP installation and that went well, but i don't know about Windows 95. Please ask man.

please send me the pictures on the galery.

Thanx for the memory lane video. I did a lot of Win 95 installs from floppy to CD ROM installs. The first version of Win 95 was a big of a dog but they seem to sort it out with Windows 95 OSR2.

Wenn damals alles nicht so extrem teuer gewesen wäre, wären heute viel mehr Menschen richtig digital.

I'm gonna guess that you are a Capricorn.

I really enjoy looking back at all the past operating systems. My very first computer was a Packard Bell with Windows 3.11, and of course we progressed up thru 95, 98 etc. The other day my gf walked in the room and seen me messing with my old eMachine with Windows XP, and called that ancient 🤣🤣

I love that AOpen case!

Never had a windows 95 machine. I went from windows 3.1 to 98. I used PCs that had 95 just never had one i owned with 95.