Microsoft has done something awesome for the Windows nostalgic. Oct. 2, 2013 — -- The year was 1995. If you weren't busy watching the OJ Simpson trial or "Seinfeld," you might have been listening ...

Dan Church was a young boy, just 6 or 7 years old, when he first discovered the game “Hover” on the Windows 95 CD-ROM. A combination of capture the flag and bumper cars, the program was his first ...

So should we rush out the front door with $90 clutched in our hot little hands and snap up an early copy of Windows 95, or wait and get it later? Those are your two choices if you dwell on the PC side ...

Q: My son was installing a game from a CD-ROM and, in the middle of the process, he hit Ctrl-Alt-Del. Windows 95 is completely gone now. How can I get it back? A: First, dig up the floppy diskette ...

Well how about that? Windows 95 was launched 15 years ago, today. The cornerstone of its marketing campaign was the Start button, emphasized by the multi-million dollar licensing fee paid to the ...

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Update August 24th, 2020: Today marks Windows 95’s 25th anniversary. Check out our ...

You need a boot disk. Find another Win95 machine. Make a startup disk. You then have to edit the config.sys and autoexec.bat files on that disk to 1. identify the cd player driver in config.sys (a ...

It might be news to many of today’s selfie-snapping, hashtag-happy millennials, but Windows 95 was a huge deal. I’ll never forget the day my dad came home from CompUSA with that blue, cloud-covered ...

It only takes about 10 minutes to step two decades into the past, at a time when music was MIDIs and BMPs where images. Windows 95 has been necro'd, once again, and you can now run in on Chrome, ...

It was 20 years ago Monday that Bill Gates stood in front of a crowd at Microsoft's Redmond, Washington headquarters and unveiled Windows 95. The iconic operating system introduced the world to the ...

Twenty years ago this week, Microsoft introduced its Windows 95 operating system on CD-ROM. One of the legacies of the operating system was its dreamy startup music, composed by legendary producer ...

Like a lot of people who cover technology I got my start in the IT world and became incredibly critical of it. In the 90s it was fairly terrible: Most workers had to be trained on how to use a ...