VMWare and VirtualBox are problematic with Windows 95. You may also override the install type (no serial needed) by creating a file name MSBATCH.INF with the lines '', and then 'ProductType=1', placing that in the Win95 setup folder, and then running setup. If the listed serials below do not work for a specific release, please see the Serials thread If a download does not include a boot floppy, please see Microsoft Windows Boot Disks The 95 architecture was continued with Windows 98. It could even still make use of DOS drivers. It still ran on top of DOS, but bundled its own special 'Windows 95' DOS (AKA MS-DOS 7). 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 no longer ran on a separate DOS product. It integrated the ability to run 32-bit applications similar to Windows NT or Windows 3.1 with Win32s. And it included the same networking abilities as Windows for Workgroups. It also included a new way of finding installed applications through a 'Start' menu. Windows 95 offered, at long last, a well designed document-oriented desktop shell that worked much like the 1984 Macintosh Finder.

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