Who still uses Windows 95?

[jp198780]

Ahh the days of no product activation. You could put one copy of Windows 9x on how many ever computers you wanted to.

can you do the same with 98/2000?

 

[Arm_Pit]

can you do the same with 98/2000?

Not legally....

 

[bball4life]

hmm maybe soon, might be able to pick up my grandpas old old computer that runs 95

 

[Edgesilhouette]

I have a working machine with 95. Its my tester computer for programs alot of times.

 

[Mattu]

can you do the same with 98/2000?

You can with 98 (not legally) but I think you have to activate 2000.

 

[jp198780]

i used the same copy of 2000 on different computers, with the same product key.

 

[JFHuff]

i used to have windows 98 for a long time....it was hard letting that one go. plus going to xp was weird. Compleatly new graphics setup

 

[Mattu]

i used the same copy of 2000 on different computers, with the same product key.

Ohhh I telling Microsoft on you!...............just kidding

 

[Geoff]

i used the same copy of 2000 on different computers, with the same product key.

You're not allowed to, but you were able to install the same version of Windows on as many computers as you want up until Windows XP SP2. Any version that has Windows XP SP2 or newer has to be activated, and can only be used on one PC.

 

[jp198780]

yeahh, i know.

 

[apj101]

You're not allowed to, but you were able to install the same version of Windows on as many computers as you want up until Windows XP SP2. Any version that has Windows XP SP2 or newer has to be activated, and can only be used on one PC.

yeah and we all know that the activation was an effect way to stop all that

 

[SC7]

I have an install of Windows 95 running in VMware. IIRC, there was a guy on some forum I saw who ran only Windows 95 on his Athlon64 system somehow. He had like modded drivers and everything.

 

[Shane]

This may seem a stupid question but can you still actualy buy Windows 95 anyware? (Not that i would want to )

Maybe microsoft should give it away now

 

[jp198780]

lol, Ebay has alot of copys on there.

 

[SC7]

This may seem a stupid question but can you still actualy buy Windows 95 anyware? (Not that i would want to )

Maybe microsoft should give it away now

Pricegrabber has it. My local bestbuy still has Windows Me copies on the shelf.

 

[PC eye]

I wonder if you could find copies of Windows 2.1 on EBay? I'm not surprised to hear someone developed generic drivers to run 95 on newer boards when you can still run 8bit apps with a virtual drive on an XP system.

 

[SC7]

Why 2.1, why not get the graphical MS-DOS executable known as Microsoft Windows 1.0.

 

[PC eye]

I would probably grab that as well if I had an 8086 or 8088 onhand.

 

[SC7]

Id boot it, if VMware would let me set the ram low enough and disable the functions on my P4 that prevent 3.1 from booting.

 

[PC eye]

To even run 95 you would have to install it on a small parition unless having a bios bypass utility due to the 2gb or so limitations. 98 was the one that had more problems with the 512mb limit on physical memory. That requires an edit and new entry be placed in the autoexec.bat file there.