Screenshots from Windows 95

Re:Screenshots from Windows 95 by AshamedCaptain on Thursday October 12, 2023 @08:13PM (#37864830)

Double clicking opens the date & time preferences (which already has a screenshot), not a calendar program. 9x did not ship with a clock or calendar program unless you upgraded from 3.x. The article mentions the clock in the taskbar explicitly. And unlike 98, 95 doesn't have a separate logout screen; it is always just another entry in the regular shutdown screen.

The only glaring omission I see is the CD player, but I'd hardly call it glaring considering it is a non-default component, and many countries did not even get a CD version of 95 in the first place (or only OEM).

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Re:Screenshots from Windows 95 by chungy on Thursday October 12, 2023 @09:40PM (#37865521)

I don't even think the CD Player is an optional component, my Windows 95 VM doesn't have it in the Add/Remove Programs dialog. It's just there.

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Re:Screenshots from Windows 95 by crazygringo on Friday October 13, 2023 @01:12AM (#37866951)

It was in an upgraded version of Windows 95. Not the original:

> CD Player was included in Windows 98, Windows NT 3.51, Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 (as Deluxe CD Player). The program was also made available as part of an upgrade for Windows 95.

https://microsoft.fandom.com/wiki/CD_Player

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Re:Screenshots from Windows 95 by chungy on Friday October 13, 2023 @06:44AM (#37869086)

That wiki is wrong. (First off, NT 3.51 came out four months before 95, it'd make no sense as an argument that the CD player was too new for 95, yet included in NT 3.51)

The Windows 95 release-to-manufacture disc, files dated 1995-07-11, the /WIN95/WIN95_14.CAB file:

    $ cabextract -s -l -F cdp\* win95_14.cab
    Viewing cabinet: win95_14.cab
     File size | Date       Time     | Name
    -----------+---------------------+-------------
           643 | 11.07.1995 09:50:00 | cdplayer.cnt
         88064 | 11.07.1995 09:50:00 | cdplayer.exe
         20579 | 11.07.1995 09:50:00 | cdplayer.hlp
    
    All done, no errors.

Windows 95 shipped with the CD Player from its very first release. It wasn't added in as an update. Day 1.

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Re:Screenshots from Windows 95 by AshamedCaptain on Friday October 13, 2023 @02:32PM (#37873894)

https://web.archive.org/web/20051214182952/http://support.mi...

Please also note that I _never_ saw 95 as a CD in retail. I actually took a trip to the US when it was released to search for it, since I got confirmation from my local MS that it was not in EU. Several people do ensure me that there was a retail CD version, but I have never seen it in person myself. I have seen plenty of OEM discs, though.

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Re:Screenshots from Windows 95 by chungy on Friday October 13, 2023 @03:34PM (#37874601)

In the US, the floppy version was very uncommon. I didn't even know it existed for a few years, until I encountered someone that had it.

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Re:Screenshots from Windows 95 by crazygringo on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @10:18AM (#37929061)

Ah ha. Mystery solved, thank you!

Turns out everybody's half-right. :)

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Re:Screenshots from Windows 95 by AshamedCaptain on Friday October 13, 2023 @02:34PM (#37873908)

It's right there in Multimedia section.

The minimal install of 95 is ridiculously small. Please remember that 3.x practically fits in 10MiB of disk space.

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Re:Screenshots from Windows 95 by butlike on Friday October 13, 2023 @04:13PM (#37875074)

Can I ask how you installed 95 on a VM. I've been trying for a few days but the installer errors out because of `VGA.DRV`. Dunno if it's a problem with my particular iso, but I'm using VM Ware Fusion

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