Microsoft seemingly tampered with the ‘Add New Hardware’ wizard in the Control Panel, slowing it down considerably.

Windows 95 has the honor of being one of the most revolutionary operating systems ever created. Although Microsoft already had a GUI-based operating system in Windows 3.11, Windows 95 was completely ...

Windows 95 became popular very quickly. Windows 95 improved networking and added long file names and Plug and Play, the latter a welcome relief for users. Memory limitations, plaguing users in ...

It’s now 25 years ago that Windows 95 was launched, the operating system that gave the majority of 1990s PC users their first taste of a desktop-based GUI and a 32-bit operating system.

Windows 95 running on a Nintendo 3DS was accomplished by MetraByte on YouTube. The OS ran very slowly on the 3DS, taking ...

But one YouTuber managed to get the dual-screen handheld to boot Windows 95 for an entirely different flavor of gaming. (Old Nintendo consoles make popular platforms for modding, thanks to an ...

TechTuber MetraByte recently managed to get Windows 95 to run on the new Nintendo 3DS. The modder encountered several setbacks during the process, including slow boot times, which can be ...

When Windows 11 arrived, it received a rather lukewarm reception - something that continues up until today, in some respects (as evidenced by the OS adoption figures) - and some of that reaction ...

A tech tinkerer decided to put the homebrew Nintendo 3DS port of DOSBox to the ultimate test — running Windows 95. Using the souped-up version of the 3DS, the "New" 3DS with additional RAM and ...

Now, there’s a world record speedrun, installing Windows 95B in just 1 minute 10.9 seconds. The current best attempts are collected in a Google Sheets document. So far, there have been few ...