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These disks are original boot floppy disk media for use with Microsoft Windows CD-ROMs. Not all Windows 9x/ME CDs are bootable, not all CDs included boot disks, and DOS will not see a CD-ROM drive unless a driver is loaded. OEMs were expected to provide compatible CD-ROM with the boot media provided with their systems. However towards the very late 90s, most vendors standardized on IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM hardware and the use of the OEM Adaption Kit (OAK) driver. If your CD drive is not IDE compatible (such as an MKE or Panasonic interface) you must manually add your own driver. Note: you can use the Windows 98 boot disk with Windows 95 to make things easier. If you have any UNTOUCHED OEM boot disks with different drivers, please submit them.
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Boots using «MS-DOS 7.1»
Wanted: redump from original media. Official Windows 95 boot disks will be OEM.
You may also install Windows 95 OSR 2.x using a Windows 98 or 98SE boot disk — in fact, we recommend doing so.
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OS Name — Microsoft Windows
OS Family — Windows
Developer — Microsoft
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Description 
Windows 95 was released on August 15, 1995, and it was the first operating system in the Windows family that was called full OS software (compared to previous versions), which does not run as an extension of MS-DOS software. The GUI is almost entirely new in the Windows 95, some remarkable component of the Windows operating system that we use today such as taskbar, start menu, Windows Explorer, notification area, etc., are introdocued in Windows 95, which so far remained unchanged in all future versions of Windows.
Windows 95 Support Plug and Play for smooth installation of hadware devices, 32-bit applications, preemptive multitasking.
Microsoft has released several versions of Windows 95, the first original release with codenamed ‘Chicago’ was released on August 15, 1995, then the service pack and OEM are released. I recommend you OEM Service Release (OSR) 2.5 because it includes more features and bug fixes.
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| Available in | English, Dutch, German, Japanese, Russian, Swedish, and 6 more |
| CPU Platform(s) | IA-32 |
| License | Commercial |
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System requirements
Minimum for OSR 2.5:
- Intel 80386DX processor or higher.
- 12 MB RAM.
- 700 MB hard disk space.
Installation Instructions for VirtualBox
- Make sure you’ve downloaded the files ‘Windows_95 _OSR_2.5_VM_Eng.ova’ and ‘Windows_95 _OSR_2_Boot.7z’.
- Create a new folder on the desktop and move both files in it.
- Extract the ‘Windows_95 _OSR_2_Boot.7z’ file and get the ‘Boot.img’ file.
- Install and open the VirtualBox app on your computer.
- Go to the File menu and select the ‘Import Appliance’ option.
- Select the file ‘Windows_95 _OSR_2.5_VM_Eng.ova’ which you have downloaded in the first step.
- Wait while VirtualBox is importing and creating a new virtual machine.
- Right-click on your virtual machine and select Settings.
- Go to Storage, and under Controller: Floppy, replace the Boot.img with your own Boot.img which you have extracted in step 3.
- Save the settings and start the virtual machine.
- Press Enter with Option 1 on the Windows 95 Startup menu screen.
- In the command line, type
C:and press enter. - Then type
CD INSTALLand press Enter. - Then type
SETUPand press Enter twice. - The ScanDisk program completes the disk check, go to the exit and press enter.
- Follow the Windows 95 Setup Wizard with your prefred options.
- Choose ‘C: \ Windows’ as the installation directory.
- Setup type ‘Typical’.
- Type your Certificate of Authenticity key. (This license key is not available here, please find it on the web, many keys are available for free)
- Do not create a startup disk.
- Follow and install on-screen instructions.
- When this is done and asks you to restart, go to the Virtualbox menu> Devices> Floppy Drives and remove the Boot.img from the virtual drive.
- Press OK now and restart your virtual machine.
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Microsoft Windows 95 (codenamed Chicago) launched on August 24, 1995. It sold like hot cake and Microsoft sold more than 1 million copies of Windows 95 within first four days of its release.
Windows 95 was an important checkpoint in operating system history of Microsoft. It supported Win32 applications with less memory problems and efficient use of virtual memory. Win95 was not able to run on old computers. MS DOS 7 used to initially manage boot processes. Applications in Windows 95 could run in 386 enhanced mode.
Microsoft Windows 95 Service Pack 1 (4.00.950A) released on February 14, 1996.
Microsoft Windows 95 (4.00.950B) generally known as OSR2 with FAT32 and MMX support launched on August 24, 1996.
Windows 95 Versions
Here is a list of all five version releases of Windows 95:
- Windows 95 (first original release)
- Windows 95 A (aka OSR1)
- Windows 95 B (aka OSR2) including full FAT32 support and Internet Explorer (IE 3.0) web browser.
- Windows 95 C (aka OSR2.1) with basic USB support.
- Windows 95 C (aka OSR2.5) including Internet Explorer browser (IE 4.0).
Only original Windows 95 and OSR1 were released for public. Other versions were only available to OEMs. Microsoft sold also Microsoft Plus! Add-on for Windows 95.
How to install Windows 95 from USB/CD
Once you have created ultimate Windows 95 bootable USB using the Rufus of any other tool (as mentioned above), you are ready to install Windows 95 using this USB flash drive.
Make sure you have Windows 95 installation USB disc with you. Plug this flash drive into USB port of computer, then start (or restart) computer and follow these steps:
- Press boot menu key (usually F9 for most computers) and select USB drive from the list.
- Press any key on your keyboard when prompted.
- Windows installation files will take a while to load and Windows 95 installer setup will start.
Follow the on screen step by step instructions to continue and finish installation.
How to install Windows 95 on Virtual Machines?
For some reason, if you want to install Windows 95 on virtual machines like VirtualBox or VMware etc. Here is a brief guide for these type of applications.
How to install Windows 95 on VirtualBox?
First of all, download VirtualBox for Windows 95 (if you do not have it already).
- Download Windows 95 ISO image from download section (above on top of this page)
- Launch VirtualBox and start creating new virtual machine.
- Now select Windows 95 ISO image and accept default settings.
- Start virtual machine you just created and continue with Windows 95 setup installer.
Installation on VirtualBox is almost same to normal installation on real computer.
How to install Windows 95 on VMware
First of all, download VMware (if you do not have it already).
- Download Windows 95 ISO image from download section (above on top of this page)
- Launch VMware and start creating new virtual machine.
- Now select Windows 95 ISO image and accept default settings.
- Start virtual machine you just created and continue with Windows 95 setup installer.
Installation on VirtualBox is almost same to normal installation on real computer.
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