Microsoft seemingly tampered with the ‘Add New Hardware’ wizard in the Control Panel, slowing it down considerably.

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 ...

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.

Microsoft giveth and Microsoft taketh away, and never has that been more true than with the latest version of Windows now ...

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 ...

Discover the fascinating world of ShipOS 1994. Dive into the quirks and nuances of the gaming industry with this captivating blog post.

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...