Whenever you opened a program or file in Windows 95, a rectangular Taskbar icon would appear, which you could click on to immediately call that window to the front.

To test Windows 95, a Microsoft manager drove a small lorry to a software shop and bought every programme available there.

If you have any interest in retro-computing, you know it can be difficult to round up the last official bug fixes and updates available for early Internet-era versions of Windows like 95, 98, and ...

Early builds of Windows 95 (1995) contained a hidden feature called Folder Tabs. Upon activating it, a tabbed interface in Windows Explorer is revealed…almost 30 YEARS before its official debut ...

A YouTuber recently documented how he was skillfully able to backport "thousands of apps" to Windows 95. The process was riddled with several bottlenecks, including missing DLL files, .NET ...

After copying the Windows 95 files and drivers to the system, the 16-bit setup booted into the Win9x environment. The third and final setup stage involved a genuine Win32 application, ...

And let us not forget good ol' MS Paint, Notepad, and Calculator right there in the same folder. Sound is broken for Mac since it is still on version 3.0.0 , but that reportedly was fixed in 3.1.1 ...

Other quality-of-life enhancements, like more characters in file names, plug-and-play peripheral integration, and easy access to the World Wide Web made Windows 95 the attractive option for non ...