Windows 95 Keyboard Shortcuts : General Windows Keys: F1: Displays Help information for the active object or the window as a whole. Windows logo key or CTRL+ESC: Opens the Start menu located on the taskbar.
Another common question is “Windows 95 taskbar?”.
The Taskbar is at the very bottom of the Windows 95 / 98 Desktop [see Desktop Basics ]. The Desktop is the first screen that comes up when you start your computer. The Taskbar tells you what programs, pictures, files or documents you have open and other information.
There are a few additional changes you can make for a more authentic Windows 95 experience. First, head over to the Taskbar settings (right click the Taskbar and select ‘Taskbar settings’), and change ‘Combine taskbar buttons’ to ‘Never’.
What is Windows 95?
Windows 95 offered, at long last, a well designed document-oriented desktop shell that worked much like the 1984 Macintosh Finder. It also included a new way of finding installed applications through a “Start” menu.
It was the first release of Windows with the Start menu, taskbar, and typical Windows desktop interface we still use today. Windows 95 won’t work on modern PC hardware, but you can still install it in a virtual machine and relive those glory days.
Windows 95b (also known as Windows 95 OSR2) was only available to OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers), so any Windows 95 disc you have lying around will either by the original Windows 95 release (also known as Windows 95 RTM) or the Windows 95a release (also known as Windows 95 OSR1), which came with Service Pack 1 installed.
For Windows 95 was initially marketed for adding features for high-performance computers so Windows 95 could meet the minimum system requirement of an 80386 CPU with 4 megabytes of RAM. Later releases of Windows 95 (OSR2 and onwards) included Drive. Space 3 and Internet Explorer 3.0.
Another frequent query is “What is a Windows 95 OSR2 file?”.
This is a copy of Microsoft’s Windows 95 OSR2 edition ( OEM Service Release 2 ). Included in the .. ZIP file are two items: the .. ISO file itself with Windows 95 inside, and a WINKEY95.. TXT file that you MUST read in order for your installation to be successful.
Can I install Windows 95 on a Windows 98 disk?
Important: Windows 95 CDs are NOT bootable, and require an appropriate Windows 95 Boot Floppy. (A 98FE or 98SE disk will also work fine) To speed up installation, and to avoid numerous problems, copy the win95 folder to a folder on the hard drive (such as c:\win95) and then run setup from there.
A inquiry we ran across in our research was “Does Windows 95 support high color depth?”.
Notes: Windows 95 C with VBEMP 9x display drivers installed to support high color depth. Notes: In order for the mouse to work properly, you may have to type win /s instead of win. Notes: Windows 98 with VBEMP 9x display drivers installed to support high color depth.
While I was researching we ran into the question “Does Windows 98 run on top of DOS?”.
It still ran on top of DOS, but bundled its own special “Windows 95” DOS (AKA MS-DOS 7). It could even still make use of DOS drivers. The 95 architecture was continued with Windows 98.