Microsoft reportedly sabotaged Windows 95 and 98's Control Panel, or it looks that way – is this a worrying revelation?
Microsoft seemingly tampered with the ‘Add New Hardware’ wizard in the Control Panel, slowing it down considerably.
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Start Me Up: What Has The Windows 95 Desktop Given Us 25 Years Later?
It’s now 25 years ago that Windows 95 was launched, the operating system that gave the majority of 1990s PC users their first taste of a desktop-based GUI and a 32-bit operating system.
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Windows 95
Windows 95 became popular very quickly. Windows 95 improved networking and added long file names and Plug and Play, the latter a welcome relief for users. Memory limitations, plaguing users in ...
Latest Windows 11 update is as notable for what it removes as for what it adds
Last month, the software giant began dispatching an update to Windows 11 known as 24H2, which brings changes to its flagship ...
Windows 95 Turned 29 This Year: What One Of The Best Operating Systems Taught Us
Windows 95 has the honor of being one of the most revolutionary operating systems ever created. Although Microsoft already had a GUI-based operating system in Windows 3.11, Windows 95 was completely ...
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Someone got Windows 95 installed on a Nintendo 3DS, and it was a struggle
Windows 95 running on a Nintendo 3DS was accomplished by MetraByte on YouTube. The OS ran very slowly on the 3DS, taking ...
How the Blue Screen of Death became your PC’s grim reaper
There’s nothing more startling than your PC suddenly locking up and crashing to a Blue Screen of Death. Otherwise known as a Blue Screen, BSOD, or within the walls of Microsoft, a bug check screen, ...
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A modder got Windows 95 running on a Nintendo 3DS… very slowly
But one YouTuber managed to get the dual-screen handheld to boot Windows 95 for an entirely different flavor of gaming. (Old Nintendo consoles make popular platforms for modding, thanks to an ...
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Hate Windows 11's modern looks and interface? Now you can make it look like Windows 95
When Windows 11 arrived, it received a rather lukewarm reception - something that continues up until today, in some respects (as evidenced by the OS adoption figures) - and some of that reaction ...
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Windows versions
Introduced during the reign of Windows 3.1 and two years before Windows 95, it used the same Program Manager user interface as Windows 3.1, but provided greater stability. In 1996, Windows NT 4.0 ...
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Nintendo 3DS runs Windows 95 via DOSBox — but takes hours to boot
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A tech tinkerer decided to put the homebrew Nintendo 3DS port of DOSBox to the ultimate test ...
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Speedrunning Windows 95
Now, there’s a world record speedrun, installing Windows 95B in just 1 minute 10.9 seconds. The current best attempts are collected in a Google Sheets document. So far, there have been few ...