I don't plan on having very many files available for download, but the ones I will have available, will be placed here. Every file here has been scanned by Norton Anti-virus, and while I believe them to be totally virus free, I make no guarantee. If you're paranoid, don't download anything from here! PuterGeek.Com offers three e-mail lists (or newsletters):. A casual newsletter that goes out 1-5 times per month.
Win98EBD.vfd-This is the virtual floppy disk,should help with the setup of windows 95,98,98se,ect; Win98SE Package Hard Disk.vhd - Preformatted virtual hard drive that will work with windows 95,98,98se,ect; Win98SE Package.vmc - Not too sure what this is,it might be of some use. How to Install Windows 95 in a Virtual Machine. Chris Hoffman @chrisbhoffman October 13. A Windows 95 ISO file and a Windows 95 boot disk image. Unlike modern operating systems, the Windows 95 installation disc isn’t bootable. Once you’ve got your Windows 95 ISO file, you can download a boot diskette image from AllBootDisks.
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The lists are completely separate, and the emails are never sold, traded, or given out to ANYONE! You can unsubscribe at any time. Just click on the link to get more info on each list. Here is a MS-DOS 6.22 boot disk image with a generic CD-ROM driver. This should provide real mode CD-ROM support for most IDE CD-ROMs. This image can be used when formatting and re-installing MS-DOS 6.22, Win95, and Win95A.
Need more info about the different versions of Windows 95? NOTE: This image only provides FAT16 support. If you want FAT32 support get the Win95B bootdisk image. Need more info on FAT16 and FAT32? To use this image simply click to download it, then just double-click it and follow the instructions. It will ask you to put a new floppy disk into your floppy drive, then it will format the disk, and copy the bootdisk image to it.
When done, I suggest that you immediately test your new bootdisk to make sure it works properly and can read a CD. NOTE: If you have an anti-virus program running while you create your boot disk you.may. get a false alarm as the image recreates the master boot record (MBR) on the floppy disk. This is normal. Dos622bootdisk.exe File Size: aprox 1,080KB Here is a Win95B boot disk image with a generic CD-ROM driver. This should provide real mode CD-ROM support for most IDE CD-ROMs. This image can be used when formatting and re-installing Win95B and later (including WinME).
Need more info about the different versions of Windows 95? This image provides FAT32 support. To use this image simply click to download it, then just double-click it and follow the instructions. It will ask you to put a new floppy disk into your floppy drive, then it will format the disk, and copy the bootdisk image to it. When done, I suggest that you immediately test your new bootdisk to make sure it works properly and can read a CD. NOTE: If you have an anti-virus program running while you create your boot disk you.may. get a false alarm as the image recreates the master boot record (MBR) on the floppy disk.
This is normal. Win95bbootdisk.exe File Size: aprox 897KB Here is a WinME Startup Disk image. I have made no changes to it.
It provides CD-ROM support for most CD-ROMs. This image can be used when formatting and re-installing WinME. This image provides FAT32X support. To use this image simply click to download it, then just double-click it and follow the instructions. It will ask you to put a new floppy disk into your floppy drive, then it will format the disk, and copy the Startup Disk image to it. When done, I suggest that you immediately test your new Startup Disk to make sure it works properly and can read a CD.
NOTE: If you have an anti-virus program running while you create your boot disk you.may. get a false alarm as the image recreates the master boot record (MBR) on the floppy disk. This is normal. NOTE: A WinME startup disk can NOT SYS (transfer the system files needed to boot) a hard drive or a floppy! If you need or want this ability, I suggest using a Win95B bootdisk instead.
If you plan to use method ONE on my WinME install page you will have to use a Win95B bootdisk! Winmestartupdisk.exe File Size: aprox 780KB Here is a modified WinME bootdisk image. The only files on this image are:. COMMAND.COM. IO.SYS. MSDOS.SYS These are the only files needed to make a floppy disk boot-able.
This image is for those of you that wish to make a customized bootdisk, or have need for a plain boot-able WinME floppy to run programs with.like a BIOS update and so on. To use this image simply click to download it, then just double-click it and follow the instructions. It will ask you to put a new floppy disk into your floppy drive, then it will format the disk, and copy the bootdisk image to it. When done, I suggest that you immediately test your new bootdisk to make sure it works properly.
NOTE: If you have an anti-virus program running while you create your boot disk you.may. get a false alarm as the image recreates the master boot record (MBR) on the floppy disk. This is normal. NOTE: A WinME startup disk can NOT SYS (transfer the system files needed to boot) a hard drive or a floppy! If you need or want this ability, I suggest using a Win95B bootdisk instead. If you plan to use method ONE on my WinME install page you will have to use a Win95B bootdisk!
Winmeplainbootdisk.exe File Size: aprox 258KB Here is the new 'TweakUI' From Microsoft! It is for WinNT, Win2K, WinME, Win98 (any version), and Win95 (any version). Here's what Microsoft has to say on the down load: Read Me First With the Tweak UI 1.33 update, you can adjust your Windows User Interface, including menu speed, window animation, and Microsoft Internet Explorer.
The Microsoft® Windows® Shell Development Team has put together a set of productivity tools called PowerToys. If you're a Windows power-user, go ahead and try them out, but realize these are unsupported tools. Microsoft Technical Support is unable to answer questions about PowerToys.
System Requirements Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows 98 or Windows 95. Tweak UI 1.33 If you don't know what TweakUI is or haven't used it before, please be aware that this is a geek tool! If you use it, you may have problems (I don't, but I'm a geek).
Tweakui.zip File Size: aprox 80KB Have you heard of Felix? You know, the cat that people send via email? Felix is a small program that creates a cat that wanders around on your 'puter screen. It's a clean APP (just one file), The first time you double-click on it, it installs itself in c: program files ScreenMates.
If you want it to run on startup, simply right-click on Felix and choose ' run on startup' If you ever want to get rid of Felix all you have to do is delete (make sure to uncheck 'run on startup first') the folder you made. On my 'puter Felix uses about 2% of CPU resources, and about 300K of memory. It has not caused any problems with any other software I have. Nor any conflicts with any running programs.
When you're working Felix stays out of your way too. This is a cute, safe, and fun little free program. Here's the website that makes Felix. They have some other ones as well.
Felix.zip File Size: aprox 220KB Since I've gotten many requests, I've decided to make my Home Networking Part Two available for easy download. Of course, if you have a current version of Internet Explorer you can do the same simply by choosing File Save As. Please do not put this on another website! You may freely give this PDF file to anyone who would like it. NOTE: You may need to right-click on the icon and choose Save target as to download it instead of viewing it in your web browser. Need the Adobe?
Putergeekhomenetwork2.pdf File Size: aprox 481KB Last Revised: Visitors to this page.
Microsoft’s Windows 95 was a huge leap from. 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.
RELATED: This may be useful if you want to play an old game that doesn’t work in, although Windows 98 may be more ideal for Windows 9x-era games. Or you could just do it for a little kick of nostalgia. We wouldn’t blame you. What You’ll Need You’ll need two things for this: A Windows 95 ISO file and a Windows 95 boot disk image. Unlike modern operating systems, the Windows 95 installation disc isn’t bootable. You must first boot into an MS-DOS environment from a Windows 95 boot disk, which would have been a floppy disk at the time, to get the installation started.
If you have an old Windows 95 CD lying around, you can insert it into your PC. While ISO files of Windows 95 are available online, bear in mind that Windows 95 is still under Microsoft copyright, and can’t be legally downloaded from the web. So start digging through those old drawers of yours. Once you’ve got your Windows 95 ISO file, you can download a boot diskette image from. You will probably just need to download the “Windows95a.img” file. 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. Step One: Create Your Virtual Machine RELATED: We’ll be doing this in, which is completely free to use and available on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
You can do it in other programs like VMware, but the process of configuring the virtual machine software will be a little different. Once you have VirtualBox installed, click the “New” button to create a new virtual machine. Enter whatever name you like and select “Windows 95” from the Version box. If you name it “Windows 95”, VirtualBox will automatically choose the correct Windows version. Choose how much RAM you want to expose to your virtual machine.
VirtualBox recommends 64 MB, while official Microsoft blog claims that Windows 95 won’t boot if it has more than around 480 MB of memory. You could split the difference and safely use 256 MB, which would be more than enough for old Windows 95 applications. Continue through the wizard until you’re prompted to create your virtual hard disk. VirtualBox will automatically suggest 2.0 GB, and you probably don’t want to go over that. The retail versions of Windows 95 only support the FAT16 file system, which means they can’t use drives over 2 GB in size. Windows 95b (aka OSR2), which was only released to device manufactures and never sold at retail, does support. So, if you were using this version of Windows 95, you could theoretically use up to 32 GB of space.
Don’t boot up the machine right after you’re finished creating it. First, you’ll need to change a few settings. Right-click your Windows 95 virtual machine and select “Settings”. Click the “System” category, click the “Acceleration” tab, and uncheck “Enable VT-x/AMD-V”. If you leave this option enabled, you’ll be able to install Windows 95, but it will just show a black screen when it boots up afterwards. Next, click the “Storage” category and select the virtual drive under the Floppy controller.
Click the floppy disk button to the right of Floppy Drive and click “Choose Virtual Floppy Disk File” in the menu. Browse to the boot disk.img file and select it. Finally, click the Empty disc drive under the IDE controller, click the disc icon to the right of Optical Drive, and click “Choose Virtual Optical DIsk File”. Browse to your Windows 95 ISO file and select it. Click “OK” to save your settings when you’re done.
Step Two: Prepare Your Virtual C: Drive You can now just double-click the Windows 95 virtual machine in your library to boot it up. It will boot to a DOS prompt. Note that the virtual machine will capture your keyboard and mouse once you click inside it, but you can press the host key—that’s the right Ctrl key on your keyboard, by default—to free your input and use your PC’s desktop normally. The key is displayed at the bottom right corner of the virtual machine window. First, you’ll need to partition the virtual drive you created. Type the following command at the prompt and press Enter: fdisk This process is very simple.
You’ll be starting with an empty drive, so you just want to create a DOS partition. That’s the default option, which is “1”. You just need to accept the default options to go through the fdisk process. You can just press “Enter” three times after launching fdisk to create a DOS partition, create a primary partition, and agree that you want to use the maximum size of the drive and make the partition active. You’ll be told you have to restart your virtual machine before continuing. To do this, click Input Keyboard Insert Ctrl-Alt-Del in VirtualBox.
Press the right Ctrl key to free your mouse first, if necessary. You’ll now need to format your new partition, which will be available in the virtual machine as the C: drive. To format it, type the following command at the A: prompt and press Enter: format c: Type Y and press Enter to agree to the format process when prompted. You’ll then be prompted to Enter a label for the drive. You can enter whatever you like, or nothing at all. Press “Enter” afterwards to finish the process. Step Three: Launch the Windows 95 Installer You will now need to copy the files from the Windows 95 ISO file to your C: drive.
Theoretically, you should just be able to run the Setup program from the disc drive itself to install Windows 95. However, this produces errors, as the disc drive isn’t mounted after the installer reboots, and the installer isn’t able to find driver files it needs. Instead, we found it much easier to simply copy the files to the C: drive and run the installer from there. First, figure out which drive letter your disc drive was mounted as. This is displayed when your virtual machine boots up.
On our virtual machine, it’s the R: drive. If you forgot and can’t see it on your screen, you can always restart your virtual machine once again with the Ctrl+Alt+Delete option in the keyboard menu to view this info. Run the following command to copy the files from the Windows 95 disc to your C: drive, replacing R: with whatever drive letter corresponds to your virtual disc drive. Xcopy R: C: INSTALL /S When the process is complete, you can now switch to your C: drive and launch the setup program from the INSTALL program, like so: c: cd INSTALL setup Press Enter once again to continue when prompted. The graphical Windows 95 setup program will appear.
From here on out, you can do everything graphically without messing with the DOS prompt. The actual installation process is simple. On most screens, you can accept the default options and speed through the process. You will be prompted to enter your Windows 95 product key before the installation process finishes, however. Different editions of Windows 95 require different product keys, so ensure you’re using the correct key. When you reach the Analyzing Your Computer screen, be sure to check the “Network Adapter” and “Sound, MIDI, or Video Capture Card” options to ensure all the virtual machine’s hardware is correctly detected and configured. When you’re asked to create a Startup Disk, you can select “No, I do not want a startup disk” to continue.
This isn’t 1995 and you’re not installing this on a real PC, after all. The actual installation process will be extremely quick on modern hardware, even in a virtual machine. At the end of the setup process, Windows will prompt you to reboot and tell you to remove the floppy disk from your computer. To do this, click Devices Floppy Drive Remove Disk From Virtual Drive. Click “OK” to reboot your PC and continue afterwards. The setup process will continue setting up your hardware.
You’ll be told you have to provide a name to continue, but you can enter anything you like here. Finally, you’ll be prompted to provide your time zone and set up a printer. You can just click “Cancel” in the Add Printer Wizard window to skip configuring a printer when it appears.
Finally, your PC will reboot and you’ll be prompted to create a password. You’ll then be presented with the Windows 95 desktop. You’re done—you now have a Windows 95 virtual machine. To really get back into the 90’s, open Windows Explorer from Windows 95’s Start menu and head to the C: Install Funstuff Videos folder. You’ll find music videos for Weezer’s Buddy Holly (“Weezer”) and Edie Brickell’s Good Times (“Goodtime”), which were included on the Windows 95 disc. There’s also a movie trailer for the movie Rob Roy, which was also released in 1995. The videos in the “Highperf” folder are higher quality than the ones in the main Videos folder, so be sure to watch those—your modern PC can handle them!