My 16mb Office project will continue, as well as myself and Richard's collaboration on the micro 95 with TCP/IP Stack project, for those of you who wish to use this as a small browsing OS, etc. I'll try UPXing the entire system and windows folders later, see if I can get it down past 4 or 3mb ) I also removed some extra files, and restored functionality which the other micro 95 builds don't have.
The system uses UPX compression on the main EXEs and DLLs, btw, in case you were wondering how I got it down past redruM69's 5.35mb. I'm currently working on loading this into RAM, and also an installer for those of you with a legit copy of Windows 95. Well, I'm afraid that's all I can give you. They're fakes, right? No they're not, but you don't believe me anyway, so here's the directory listing. Here's the screenshots (taken with the camera): So I'm not just going to make this claim. And what's more, you can build the system yourself, if you know how.īut if I simply made this claim, you might laugh, you might mock. Tonight, I created the world's first sub-5mb bootable, registry editable, command- promptable, usable version of Windows 95. However, what you are about to hear is a world first. And then, there was redruM69, who managed to get 95 down to 5.35mb. Okay, over the past couple of days you will have heard plenty of news about the latest Windows 95 in 10mb, created by Richard L. If you're thinking of building your own version of Micro95, be sure to head over there to find out more information about the project.
Update: Chat with me in real-time at irc:///Micro95Ī FULL set of configuration files Win.ini, system.ini, Registry, is available in our IRC channel. If you no longer wish to use Windows 95, delete the folder.Ou can discuss this at our official community, over at. Windows 95 is portable, so extract all of the files anywhere you like and double-click on Windows95 in the folder. Of course, as the author says, "This only works well by accident and is mostly a joke. But other than that, it works and is quite fun to roam through a bit of the past. The only downside - well, not a downside in general, but Internet Explorer will not function properly and will not load up pages in the context of this app. Best of all, they will perform as you remember. With Windows 95, you can play with the various apps, including Wordpad, phone dialer, MS Paint, and Minesweeper.
Windows 10 haters might discover that Windows 10 isn't so bad after all. We don't know where we found the word Quadranscentennial, but we did, so there it is. We also think that the new generation of computer users will enjoy seeing what Windows used to be as it approaches the Quadranscentennial celebration. We considered Windows 95 a three-year-plus beta of Windows 98SE when Microsoft finally got it "right."
Of course, many of us recall reinstalling Windows 95 repeatedly, especially if you were or are a gamer. You can relive the good old days (yes, 1995 is the good old days) with this bit of nostalgic software that can be run on multiple operating systems, including Windows 10.
Windows 95 brings you back to 1995, allowing you to run Windows 95 as a portable app without the need for installation, partitioning, or dual booting.