Windows 95 offered, at long last, a well designed document-oriented desktop shell that worked much like the 1984 Macintosh Finder. It also included a new way of finding installed applications through a "Start" menu. And it included the same networking abilities as Windows for Workgroups.
It integrated the ability to run 32-bit applications similar to Windows NT or Windows 3.1 with Win32s. It no longer ran on a separate DOS product. But Windows 95 was not a pure "32-bit" OS: It was still based around the framework of Windows 3.x, 2.x and 1.x. It still ran on top of DOS, but bundled its own special "Windows 95" DOS (AKA MS-DOS 7). It could even still make use of DOS drivers. The 95 architecture was continued with Windows 98.
OSR2.5 ("C" version) bundles Microsoft Internet Explorer 4 and the IE 4 webby desktop and Microsoft Plus! for additional desktop enhancements.
It also slipstreams the USB update in to the 95 setup.
If these components are deleted prior to installation, it is identical to OSR 2.
Reviewer:archIvarIus3k
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July 30, 2022 Subject:
Fine upload, but 1st sector is bad!
This Iso is overdumped and have 1st sector broken. https://archive.org/details/0799113214281267 - this upload also a bit overdumped but at least doesn't containt broken sectors.
Reviewer:Golden Productions
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October 6, 2020 Subject:
Windows 95
Copyright (C) 1985-1998 Microsoft Corporation
Reviewer:LeftyBC
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September 17, 2019 Subject:
Works just fine
Windows 95 CDs were NOT bootable. Windows 98 was the first version that supported booting from the CDROM. For this disc to work on a machine without CD drivers, a Windows 95 boot floppy is required. You should be able to get one from bootdisk.com however.
