Windows 95 - 30 Years On - Installation and First Run

30 years ago Windows 95 was released to retail (August 24, 1995). OEM versions were released to manufacturing over a month earlier. In this video, I install the OEM version of Windows 95 to VirtualBox virtual machine. I'll point out that retail versions didn't initially come bundled with Internet Explorer. You could obtain it from the Microsoft Plus! 95 CD. OEM versions had it bundled. I also demonstrate different programs that came with Windows 95.

This is the first of a series of videos demonstrating Windows 95 in action on VirtualBox.

Here in the description, I include video chapters, and links to different files you should get to make installation and setup more of a breeze.

== CHAPTERS ==

0:00 Intro/Info
0:27 DOS Boot, FDisk and Format C:
1:28 Windows Setup
2:55 Progress Bar Lag
3:43 Windows Setup cont. (Components)
7:16 Copying Files
8:47 Reboot and Setup
10:22 First Boot and VirtualBox Display Drivers
12:37 Windows 95 CD
16:33 Hover!
21:31 Microsoft Exposition
24:52 Windows 95 CD cont.
26:20 WordPad
28:40 Minesweeper and Solitaire
36:08 Internet Setup
40:50 Web page of the first World Wide Web Conference
44:16 Control Panel and more of Windows 95 CD
47:51 MS-DOS Editor, Notepad, and WordPad
54:25 MS Paint, Desktop Wallpapers, and Calculator
58:48 WordPad
1:01:14 Shutdown

== FILES USED ==

I used these files to make my life easier when installing Windows 95 in VirtualBox. You can too.

* DOS Boot Floppy Image with CD-ROM support.
https://www.allbootdisks.com/disk_images/Dos6.22.img

* SVGA display driver for using Windows 95 as a VirtualBox guest.
https://www.os2museum.com/wp/windows-9x-video-minidriver-hd/

== LINKS OF INTEREST ==

https://winworldpc.com/ (Archive of old versions of operating systems)
https://www.allbootdisks.com/download/dos.html
https://www.os2museum.com/

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