LGR 486 Upgrade! Installing & Enjoying Windows 95

The LGR Woodgrain 486 computer needs an update... to the year 1995! I've got a sealed, new in box copy of Microsoft Windows 95 to unbox (on both floppy disk and CD-ROM!) so let's install everything on top of Windows 3.1 and have fun with some classic 90s PC games and software.
● LGR links:
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● All background music licensed from:
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00:00 Introducing Windows 95
03:15 Unboxing the CD-ROM Upgrade
09:40 Windows 95 in 1995. Such HYPE!
12:23 Installing It... From Floppy Disks
16:59 The Raw Windows 95 Experience
19:22 DOOM+DOS games under Windows
21:58 What's Here, What's Not
24:33 The "Funstuff" Folder
26:05 Hover!
27:36 Those OpenGL 3D Screensavers
30:39 Microsoft Plus! Companion
34:59 3D Pinball Space Cadet
37:02 Duke 3D Windows Themes
38:21 Lode Runner The Mad Monks' Revenge
39:36 Age of Empires
41:00 Need For Speed II on a 486?
43:17 Outroduction
#LGR #Retro #Computer

[@YouCantUnhearThis]

Imagining traveling back in time and explaining to someone in the mid-90s that someday in the future, millions of people would spend 45+ minutes watching someone else install a Windows 95 upgrade...just for fun. 😎

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[@smartpug967]

this has 350k views...

[@YouCantUnhearThis]

@@smartpug967 it’s not done accumulating views, has it? Someday, it will be in the millions! 🖥️

[@smartpug967]

@@YouCantUnhearThis Maybe! (hopefully)

[@starwindamada5313]

I wonder who will comment a century from now in 2123

[@AvengerDK]

Man. I remember getting Windows 95 and spending around 8 hours of a LAN party to get local network shares to work. The ability to browse a friends shared files while doing other stuff was amazing.

[@rafflesssadiss8182]

Yup. That shared files really great for sharing MP3 files from napster for sure. 😅

[@obsidian....]

Right there with you 🙏

[@HamsterImWinterschlaf]

"shared files".... real penetrating experience.

[@drhmufti]

@@HamsterImWinterschlaf sticky stuff!

[@blackoutgstar9949]

yoooooooo that was so annoying before plug and play didn't plug and play start on windows me?

[@AkosJaccik]

34:10 - When it comes to soft power switching and the "You can now turn off your computer" message, it was the opposite experience for me, as a kid. My mind was completely blown how the PC can _turn itself off._ Like, no need to press a button, it's just... it turns off! It seemed like a wild concept. Then again, I similarly enjoyed how you could open and close a CD tray through software.

[@drek7361]

Man I also remember being blown away by being able to turn the computer ON using the keyboard. I forget what combination of keys it was but had to enable it on bios

[@whosonedphone]

I'm still blown away by it!

[@celebratelife865]

I too was blown away when you could open and close the CD tray from a program. It felt like you were controlling a robot. You have to understand that controlling something physical through a button on screen was a powerful experience.🎉

[@florian2927]

Omg same exact reaction here. It was mind blowing at that time!

[@motoracer77]

freecupholder.exe

[@DJTI99]

I got my first IT job just before 95 came out. As an IT professional, it was a godsend. It was so buggy and insecure, that I never had to worry about not having a job.

[@gassmanet]

Oh man, my grandfather taught me how to use windows 95 when I was 6. Our mom had set the home computer to boot in DOS, thinking it'd keep us from the games (spoiler: it taught us how to read and type). I dunno why my grandfather was so "with it". He kept being with it 'till the end. Win 95 colours still remind me of him, thanks for posting this blast from the past!

[@sethbergman3320]

Love that

[@spagamoto]

Life goal: to be that grandparent. I've got a grandmother who is incredibly with it well into her 80s, even going to college courses. Never settle.

[@Caseytify]

Your grandmother? When you were five? Man, I feel old now...

[@demo3456]

awesome memories man

[@jamesragsdale3069]

He was hardcore gaming and you didn't realize it.

[@LonSeidman]

A relatively local CompUSA had a midnight sale for Windows 95 on August 24th - I was so excited. What sweetened the deal was that they were selling RAM dirt cheap that night and I was able to upgrade my machine from 8 megs to 16!

[@steezydeezy1889]

As a kid born in the late 90s, my very first interactions with computers were from using windows 95/98 machines and playing games like the sims and rainbow six with my brothers. Your videos always give me a huge nostalgia trip to those days. Thanks for the content!

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[@UNPOCOLOCO444]

Sims tho 😍 👌🏻

[@acehunter3229]

Don't forget Delta Force 1 & 2

[@Kasperx138]

sorry but you know nothing of the 90s

[@steezydeezy1889]

@@Kasperx138 imagine replying to a year old comment with something as irrelevant as this

[@Xyklonikus]

I remember when this came out. I was 15 and my friend and I (working together today as developers) were interning at an office/computer store. When we unpacked disks we brought from home the store owner just said "I'm going to meet a client... thus I never saw anything." That night I upgraded at home. Good days

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[@Goldom]

I still remember when I was a kid and did the 95 upgrade on our family PC, because of course I knew more about the thing than my parents even at whatever young age. When the 95 boot screen came up, I remember running to get my parents, because "this is a historic moment!" I don't think they thought so. But the fact I still remember it says otherwise!

[@ran2wild370]

lol! Windows95 was the historic moment itself, like some scientific inventions or discoveries. Well sort of, because it is a product of a very intensive research.

[@generaltechnology8250]

@@ran2wild370 I mean, it did introduce the design model that every Windows version after has implemented in some way.

[@craigj2966]

I was managing a software store when Windows 95 came out. Since we were a Microsoft gold reseller we got to co-host the local launch party. Win 95 was an incredibly big event. We had been using the Beta for months so we were used to the software but it was still amazing to see the reaction to it.

[@LGR]

I can only imagine the energy that day! Did you also have access to the Redmond event satellite feed?

[@craigj2966]

@@LGRI'm having to think back almost 30 years, it was actually before the launch. Microsoft did a national promotional tour in the month prior. There was a demo showing the upgrade process and the features., mostly technical, not nearly as cringey as the Jay Leno/Bill Gates video. Everyone who came got to reserve a copy of the software but we still had a big line on launch day. I remember during the upgrade demo one of the guys turned the computer off and the other guy acted like he had destroyed the computer but of course it magically resumed the install when they powered it back on.

[@talz13]

I honestly had no idea that 3d pinball HAD music until now!😅

[@Glocken95]

Same! Glad im not the only one lol.

[@ekauq2000]

Yep, didn’t know either. And just an FYI, looks like the music is also part of the Steam Deck flat pack version.

[@yuGmooDehT]

Same, kinda want to go back and play it with the music if it's possible through a vm

[@jamiewellbourn3609]

Same! I also didn't know it existed prior to XP even though I used 98 for years and a little of 95

[@shrinivasexe]

same here!

[@zloboslav_]

At school there were a lot of Pentium 2s with Windows 95 and someone put Midtown Madness on all of them and if we did all the work in class we had a LAN party the remaining time :) Also Worms Armageddon!

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[@spartanwarrior9755]

Your school was awesome!

[@markehijele]

Midtown madness!

[@TheInternetHelpdeskPlays]

So many memories. I love the plus pack. Pointless fact, for the Da Vinci theme, Bill Gates actually licensed and scanned Da Vinci's original work to use as the background. It's awesome.

[@LGR]

Ooh really! I remember hearing how he bought some of his drawings for like 30 million back then.

[@reidster87]

@@LGR Yes! BG purchased the Codex Leicester, a volume of da Vinci's hand drawn/hand written scientific papers for $30M. It was named for the Earl of Leicester, whose estate owned the document until 1980, dating back to his purchase of it in 1717. Corbis released a CD-ROM title called "Leonardo da Vinci" that includes an interactive version of the Codex, complete with English translation.

[@Pendarr]

I loved the DaVinci theme on plus, that’s neat!

[@XYZ-pm3ju]

Huh, how come this isn't Public Domain yet? Any classical musician is, right?

[@SteveSkafte]

@@XYZ-pm3ju Public Domain doesn’t mean that the owner of the original is obligated to give you access. When old music enters public domain, you can freely reproduce it from whatever tape, CD, record. But whoever owns the masters will be able to make a much better reproduction than you ever could.

[@Parshath20]

I remember my dad bringing home our first computer sometime in 1996. It was a black Compaq Presario 2200 running Windows 95. It came with Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia and I nearly wore that CD out exploring every topic it had to offer. After that our whole family was playing Hover and we were all trying to beat each other's high scores, and one day my dad brought home Star Trek Borg and I fell in love with that right along side him. Even though we don't have that computer anymore, several years ago I found the exact model for sale and picked it up. With some work I got it running again and installed Windows 95 on it from the restore disks. I love having that PC just for all the memories and early computer knowledge it gave me.

[@davebrogan7941]

I remember going to a launch party at Incredible Universe and it was, well, incredible! The excitement and energy in the crowd was so fantastic! My family didn’t “get it” and thought I was crazy going to a “party” at an electronics store. Windows 95 was everything that it was hyped to be. What an awesome memory. Thanks for the video!

[@gregoryschaiberger3573]

My first computer was an Acer Aspire with windows 95 in 1995. I remember The Rolling Stones commercial. I also 3 years later when windows 98 came out which was Also hyped big time. I bought it the release date. The start menu was so innovative that when they tried to remove it (windows 8) everyone complained. Thanks for the nostalgia, Clint.

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[@starwindamada5313]

My first computer was an NEC Versa laptop with Windows 3.1. It's how I discovered Doom.

[@Digr2108]

When my father's company upgraded their comouters to Windows 95, the old 386 units with MSDOS were put up for sale. Dad bought 2 and brought them home for my sister and I to learn how to to type and use a computer. So many good memories playing games like Crystal Caves and Duke Nukem!

[@LeoInterVir]

Classic games, played them too.

[@Francois_L_7933]

Yes... memories. When Win 95 came out, I had been rocking the final Beta version on my 486DX2-66 for about 6 months. When people from school were coming over, you should have seen their faces when they saw that I wasn't running 3.11 anymore!

[@joshuasharrock466]

I also upgraded off of a 66.. Also remember upgrading to the first pentiums around that time too only because of Duke nukem running at 1/4 of a frame per second. But windows 3.11 and MS-DOS 6.2 was a wonderful start to computers I think

[@DCCoreDrive]

The error sound loop mixed with the beat cracked me up, brilliant 😀

[@jonavene12]

14:40

[@DannyB587]

I memorized my Windows 95 CD key 25 years ago. To this day, I still know it. The nostalgia from this OS is just...something else.

[@marcosalves4890]

15895-OEM-0001411-51565 was mine. Still also burned in my brain. I also found out that the serial verification scheme would allow for 0002822 instead of 0001411 dunno why :D

[@Neddy540]

Incredible memory

[@nalinux]

I had to reinstall so often I did the same :) But forgot. It was a great POS.

[@nalinux]

@@marcosalves4890 There was a math question about multiples or additions of 7, IIRC. We could write about anything.

[@robsku1]

@@marcosalves4890 Finally, a key I can use to install Windows 95 to my brand new PC - I was getting tired of using FreeDOS + Windows 3.1 😛 I'm so going to use this for evil! 😝

[@EriolGaurhoth]

That error sound remix is why your channel is the best retro tech channel on KZbin.

[@UnjustifiedRecs]

Soon as that error noise started I thought 'you should sample that'..... Then you went and did the next best thing, using your PC as a modular synth haha 😂

[@BoshkoIgich]

LGR is also a synth nerd with imo a pretty good taste in music, he has posted a few videos here on KZbin as well as lots of clips on Twitter

[@andocobo]

I still remember the day I upgraded my family pc to Windows 95 as a 14 year old - it really was very exciting at the time

[@jayranks3724]

So much nostalgia. I love the fact you made improvised some '90s trance from the looping sound effect!

[@GetVladimir]

I don't think I've ever heard the actual MIDI music of 3D Pinball before. This was such an amazing video! Thank you so much for creating it and for making us part of the opening experience. That classic cloud loading intro of Windows 95 is still one of my favorites.

[@claykilgore2851]

Same here! I had no idea there was music that would play in pinball. Apparently something was not configured correctly on my machine.

[@MadsonOnTheWeb]

I had no idea it has music on it as well

[@TSL73]

Never heard it on Windows XP

[@GetVladimir]

@Lime that is possible, as I remember MIDI usually working properly everywhere else. How do you enable the music in 3D Pinball?

[@luzten]

exactly my first thoughts as well! Cool music btw

[@johncranston421]

I count myself fortunate to have lived through these times as a teenager, windows 95 was a huge change and then access to the internet blew my tiny mind. Thanks for the nostalgia trip 🙏

[@LGR]

You bet, and likewise! That level of excitement over a danged _operating system_ upgrade is unthinkable now.

[@adamchandley2968]

@@LGR Vista was the last exciting OS upgrade... a hard-learned lesson!

[@XxLIVRAxX]

That Win95 intro sound though 👌 My first PC was an IBM Aptiva 95, with Win95 plus a bundle pack of other programs like Encarta 95 and games like Caesar II, my first browser was Netscape Navigator. We bought it from a big box retailer (Makro), it was a pretty sweet deal back in early 96, I was 9 years old at the time, that PC stayed with us until 2002 when we upgraded to a WinXP PC, another amazing OS.

[@nikospapageorgiou57]

This video brought back so many happy memories, and watching you play Doom on Windows 95 reminded me the countless hours we spent with my cousins during weekends and holidays doing just that!

[@zvisger]

That computer looks really clean LGR man. You put a lot of TLC into that

[@LGR]

Thank you!

[@Appl_Jax]

I loved that "Inside your computer" theme so much back then. Used to think it was so cool that looking at my desktop I could "see" what's in my computer. I think I ended up settling on the space theme though. I loved the sounds that went with that. Not sure if that was 95 or 98.

[@Oocca_Truth]

You're right, it was 95! I'm 99% sure that particular theme was part of the 95 Plus! pack

[@thereallantesh]

Space was definitely part of the '95 Plus pack. It was my favorite of the included themes. I loved the sounds as well, and actually have it set right now on my Win 98 retro PC.

[@jediguy634]

I remember doing this upgrade on my family's first PC, a Tandy, from 3.1 to 95. I spent way to much time play HOVER! and "edutainment" games like Math Blaster. This was a great stroll down memory lane.

[@boris1986]

Holy cow! I spent tens of hours in Space Cadet with XP and just now I learned that it had music. And such an awesome tune! Thank you so much for your videos, Clint! They bring me so much joy in such... uneasy times. Hope everything will be alright in the coming times.

[@hazelnotxyz]

Damn yeah I never had any idea it was supposed to have music o.o

[@hiRyan329329]

Hearing the music is almost off-putting with how many hours went into it without even knowing it had the option

[@reinatycoon3644]

This game is so nostalgic and comforting for me; especially the midi music. ......my highest score ever was 18 million points i think.

[@McTwistedTwisties]

We jumped from 3.11 on a 486 to Windows 98SE on A P2 266 with MMX. It was mind blowing since it had DVD support. A lot of the edutainment we had ran perfectly fine on the 486 with CD players, what blew out mind though was the 98SE computer had a DVD drive and we bought DVD movies to watch on the family computer connected to the TV. Wild times.

[@Psythik]

The wording of your comment implies that you no longer have a computer hooked up to your TV. I can tell you this much: You haven't *lived* until you've tried PC gaming on a modern 4K 120Hz OLED. Even the desktop is an exciting experience on a massive display, even if it's just a regular old 1080p60 screen. You should try it.

[@Markimark151]

Going from Windows 3.1 to Win 95 was mind blowing for its user interface! My family was able to fully use the computer without doing DOS prompts and those hidden icons!

[@GiselleGauthier]

Great nostalgia trip, Clint. Thank you. I remember my uncle installing Windows 95 Upgrade, CD-ROM version, on multiple computers across the family before pesky Internet verification was a thing. I don't think we had Internet Explorer, but Netscape instead, and it's wild to think you would have had to pay $25 extra for that back then. But I do recall him also getting the Plus pack and sinking hours into the games and such included with it.

[@Sem5626]

as a young kid i was lucky enough to open a brand new boxed version of both windows 95 and windows 98 the experience still sticks with me today, sure there were a bunch of other good games that were awesome to unbox like starcraft... diablo... tomb raider i still remember the whole process of trying to figure out how to get it installed... that iconic installer with its animations and sounds cracking open an OS box was always a different kind of excitement, knowing that the very base of your computer was about to be updated to a new experience was a special kind of time

[@wolverine9632]

Fitting Windows onto 13 floppy disks is actually pretty impressive in my opinion.

[@SureshotCyclonus]

Yep, Distribution Media Format (DMF) helped. The extra 240KB per disk adds up.

[@ironcito1101]

That'd be what... 20 MB? For an entire OS with a GUI, plus some included apps and whatnot. We use 20 MB for a photo nowadays.

[@TheSmart-CasualGamer]

@@ironcito1101 Remember that a Google Search uses more power than an entire Apollo mission.

[@dave1135]

When I upgraded our 486 from 3.1 it wasn't just a task, it was a event, installing it and the anticipation of using the new system was as much exciting as using it. I miss those days

[@wolfejar]

Me too! Great memories.

[@drew8235]

Oh man this is my childhood. I should probably not have been playing Doom when I was like 8 but oh well.

[@Dm.my..telgrm.Freddygives]

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[@Dukefazon]

This is totally the era I'm so nostalgic about! Back in the late 90's we only had an Amiga 500, but all my friends had various other systems. One of the most influencial was this guy who had a Windows95 system. I saw that PS/2 or serial Microsoft mouse on the background (original install screen of Win95, maybe the actually had a mouse like that, I'm not sure), they even had Microsoft Plus! installed too and holy hell, you finally showed off the Duke Nukem Screensavers, I'm so happy that you finally touched on this, I saw that screensaver set there too. I saw and played Duke Nukem 3D first there, and my user name is that for a reason :) Saw and played Lode Runner, Need for Speed 3, Quake, Incubation - Battle Isle Phase IV, Networkd Q Rac Rally at this friend's place. Every single game was so... determinative? Maybe this is not the right word. I think this was a Pentium 1 system because it could run Quake. I'm still a fan of that era and still a fan of NFS3, Duke3D and Quake to this day, thanks to these wonderful times at this buddy's place. Thanks for making this video! :D

[@teku0000]

Hi Clint, I dont have memories to Windows 95 as I was born in the 2000s but I love watching your stuff its somehow relaxing and calming for me, helps with anxiety, anyways I love your stuff!

[@AndronicusKomnenos]

Back in the mid 90s, I remember trying to squeeze every bit of drive space and memory out of my 486DX-33. When I upgraded from 4mb to 8mb, I felt like a million bucks because I did it myself.

[@CannedMan]

My first upgrade was from 8 to 32 MiB of EDO RAM to go with my Cyrix 586 100 MHz. It was supposed to match a Pentium 75, but Quake sure proved that wrong. In any case, it wasn’t until that upgrade that I reinstalled Windows 95; two years prior I decided to downgrade to DOS 6.22 and 3.11. I still have my original OEM Win95 CD-ROM.

[@aziztcf]

Did you ever traumatize yourself with Doublespace?

[@CannedMan]

@@aziztcf I considered trying out compression, I remember, but never saw the need when I later uploaded to a massive 3 GB hard drive. 7.9 milliseconds - it was blazingly fast!

[@sashadewitt7297]

I haven't heard that start up sound in about 16 years. It's soothing in a way I didn't expect.

[@SerYil1]

god so much fun man, I remember installing on disk in a high school class around '97 took me ages, but want to do it again for sure!

[@bowser724]

My dad worked for a Microsoft partnered consultancy company in the '90s and so we got Windows 95 and the Plus! pack for free. We definitely ran it on a 486 initially, with a Sound Blaster Pro. Some of our first Win 95 games were 3D Movie Maker, Deadly Tide, Monster Truck Madness, and The Neverhood. We also had free dialup internet access through his company's private ISP. I was downloading DOS shareware left and right, from sites like Happy Puppy.

[@quinnocent]

God. Shareware on Happy Puppy. Remembering doing the same with my dad.

[@houstoner]

The nostalgia is real. I was like 10 when this came out and remember wanting it badly too. Always love your videos Clint. I got my fancy modern gaming rig these days, but I think I may have to make an old school build of my own sometime. I want to play some games as intended again. Emulation isn't the same. The 90s were a special time in history for many of us.

[@NoahClevinger]

Great episode, Clint! I just love everything about Windows 95 and this was very comforting to watch.

[@zivzulander]

Fresh woodgrain, fresh OS. Party like it's 1995! 😎🍿

[@MantaRay416]

My god, what a throwback. My family got our first computer in November of 95. It was a Compaq Presario 9546. I went with my Dad to Incredible Universe and CompUSA getting software and accessories. I was 9 and my previous computer experience at the time was with Win 3.11 and various Apple/Macintosh systems. Really exciting time with all the newfangled multimedia. I spent hours playing DK's "The Way Things Work", Encarta 95, MechWarrior 2, Aces of the Deep and bunch of DOS games. Thanks for taking us back Clint!

[@jared23455]

Incredible Universe was heaven.

[@clavius5734]

Thanks for making this video Clint! I was 12 when win95 came out, and my dad installed it on his 486, which later became my 486. Used that thing till early 1999. The gaming situation is so recognisable, forget running anything post ‘96-ish on a rig like that. But man, it was magical, felt like we stepped into some kind of fresh future!

[@dawgdaes]

Great video brought back a flood of memories. I remember lining up at for the midnight launc of windows 95 outside of a Computer City in Las Vegas NV. It was crazy they had a band playing inside the store. It was a real event. I also recall buying Windows 95 plus the same night. Everytime I hear that Weezer song it makes me feel old and I'm only 51. Love the windows 95 content and love the PC Jr content.

[@Erfy9]

This Computer has grown over the years just like the channel. A magnificent machine. Keep up the content.

[@LGR]

Eight years old and going stronger than ever! Thanks for sticking around :)

[@JuanHernandez-ig5cd]

Your channel is my favorite “asmr” haha. There’s something so relaxing about all these retro machines

[@Zycyzyx]

I still remember when we got our Win95 machine, it was such a huge upgrade over our previous IBM clone. Me and my brother went straight from playing ASCII only door/BBS games to stuff like Warcraft 2 and Crusader. Having actual sound was nice too since I could hook it up to my grandfather's old stereo receiver and annoy everyone with tracker tunes I downloaded off of AOL. (using either MOD4Win or CubicPlayer) Oh, so many memories....

[@olli.romunen]

That NFS menu music always gives me chills. Such a masterpiece of its time

[@fredrikjohansson]

I remember the excitement when I first upgraded to windows 95 on our 486, for some reason I was hyped for the feature that you could have folders in folders on the desktop! Definitely the future of computing!

[@TastyBusiness]

Thank you for taking the time to install my favorite operating system of all time. Look at it go! Good stuff, Clint. I used 95 on my dad's computer around when it came out, just to play some HE titles and The Way Things Work. Eventually, I got my own AST 486 in '96 and spent hours playing around in MS Paint, opening as many windows as I could at once. LEGO Island was too much for my AST, so I had to use my dad's computer to play it. Eventually, I got his computer as a hand-me-down, after it got 98 installed on it, and the AST made its way to the trash. Decades later, I dug up the exact same model on ebay, and I find myself installing 95 in so many varieties on all sorts of hardware to enjoy the wonders it provides.

[@Fir3Chi3f]

The 486 build was how I found and sub'ed to LGR. Great to see it again as a star of an episode!

[@LGR]

Thanks for sticking around!

[@ElMarcoh]

I still remember upgrading my old PC to win95, was super excited by every small new thing it had, I got the Plus! CD shortly after with all the crazy themes and stuff... but I was blown away when I got the command and conquer RedAlert domination pack at some Christmas that came with even more themes for windows! A fun fact that I learned from a tech guy on 96' was that you could do a clean install using the upgrade disk by doing some CLI magic I forgot long time ago.

[@Mr_Top_Hat_Jones]

So much nostalgia… and so many things I haven’t thought about in nearly 30 years. Thank you, my friend.

[@songsan807]

Wow you really took a bullet for us going to the Windows 95 upgrade route on a 486. Brings so much memories back. Yeap I was one of the poor bloke who had a 486 66Mhz and then upgrade it to Win 95 using the floppy disks. Got the same experience you got with the games playing slow. Broke down and got a Cyrix 5x86 chip and make sure to get Win 95 in a CD. Such a big change going from Win 3.1 to 95.

[@VDubPQ32]

Dude I just discovered your channel this week but I'm BINGING. All the hardware and software I wanted when I was young, but couldn't obtain because.... I was just a kid, like you

[@LGR]

Heck yeah dude. Hope you continue to enjoy!

[@adamsavard535]

Windows 95 was my first OS experience; my dad brought home the work laptop and had it connected to a CRT in our basement. I vividly remember playing many, many games (mostly Reader Rabbit and the like, I was a kid). It was shortly upgraded to 98, but that was a formative memory for me.

[@ambostralian]

Man the memories of 95. I still remember the windows 95 computer my parents had in the office of our house. Watching this made me so nostalgic. I remember being so worried about breaking something that I only ever typed win at the dos prompt to get to w95... It felt so much more safe and inviting my comparison.

[@andrebrown8900]

I remember the first time I encountered Windows 95 was my work study job in high school, my parents were not interested in buying a computer yet (nor did we have a second phone line at the time to have a dedicated computer, there was no way we would have the internet tie up our regular phone line!). I remember the high school computer lab having these old DOS computers that didn't connect to the internet so they weren't really fun. Fast forward to that work study job and seeing Windows 95 and connecting to the internet, just absolutely blew me away, and how much more accessible and fun to use the computer was strictly from a user experience, I often stayed a little bit after my shift was over to play around with the "good" computer in the office that had the internet. Brings back so many cool memories of the early internet era, awesome video!

[@shanester366]

I remember when my dad brought home our windows 95 pc, it was built by Datel which is a local computer company that our previous 486 was also built by. Seeing a pc with a CD rom and speakers was so cool. Upgrading from a 14" shamrock monitor to a big 17" sony was really nice too. It really felt like such a huge upgrade over the old system

[@snizzol]

Dude this was a trip down memory lane, wouzers you realy nailed it.

[@tl1024]

Omg! The memories of trying to get everything working! Thanks Clint, love the channel.

[@LGR]

Absolutely, thanks for watching!

[@daniel_007]

Just watched the entire video, it was an amazing time travel, where I could finally see how the Windows 95 Install packages looked like! For me Windows 95 was the first ever OS I used when I was a kid (alongside MS-DOS), and I have fond memories of that! I remember the joys of listening to MID files through the OPL3 sound chip (I was gathering as many MID files as I could), browsing through the shovelware and magazine cover CDs (that made me discover some nice shareware stuff, including Warcraft 2). Fun times!

[@Tooxcade]

I remember so well playing around with the wallpaper and the sound of the modem when connecting to the internet. thank you for sharing this video, good old memory. 😍😍😍😍😍

[@JoeRyMi]

Remember my dad bringing this home the day it came out. It truly felt like the future was here.

[@jtoumai]

I know it's off topic but looking at your video gives me memories of playing my NES and Sega... listening to cassette tapes and finally cds... it was a good time. Thank you

[@Aaron.Newman]

I remember playing Hover for the first time on a Packard Bell that was on display at a Costco in 1996. Blew my mind. Great video Clint!

[@WagnersTechTalk]

Enjoyed this video, thank you Clint! I remember during the official Launch of Windows 95, they had a really cool on-line scavenger hunt. The internet was fairly new to most, at the time, and you would visit different sites for clues. I seem to recall "Bethany" as either the name of the hunt or somehow related. I'll have to do some searching after this. I remember getting a Windows 95 install while at work and trying to win the on-line scavenger hunt game. It was a brilliant marketing move at the time. Hope y'all had a Happy Thanksgiving, always love your content sir!

[@Obie327]

LGR I remember the hype and buying Windows 95 that very day. The cool thing about version A of 95 was being able to run every dos game I had. I was able to adjust the upper memory address to keep as much of the 640k extended capacity . Later versions 95 B and C took more address space away. Good times and I want to install a legacy build like i remembered. Have fun man!

[@Skatox]

I loved this episode, I'm pretty sure I haven't heard the Sierra intro since 20 years ago. Also, I didn't spect you talking about Windows 95 plus! that was a must-have to get the full experience.

[@jimmyharsveld1594]

Nice! I started with the Commodore 64 en have had all the Windows editions. And your video's are always very nice to watch by. I enjoy this nostalgic! (I'm getting old typed this in Windows 11). Nice job, Clint, as always! Greetz from Holland.

[@DochMurder]

And this is the first time in my life hearing the music from Pinball. I used to play the crap out of it in middle school! Guessing my home pc at the time and school computers didn't have midi support? How cool is that! LGR always just gets me thinking about the past! Great Video Clint!

[@Byte5]

Hey Clint! Great video and I'm excited of learning that you have the same kind of memories I had as a kid (maybe around same time), you know, like an uncle with a brand new pc and you being so surprised every second you played with it.. Yeah, that's just about the kind of memories I have and that I try to share with brazilian audiences through my YT channel as well (a very small one, I must say), your channel is my main inspiration but I lack your unique sense of humor, great editing capabilities and everything that made you the best "retro pc" channel in the world. I really expect this compliment to reach you although I don't ever think you will ever be able to answer my comment as I know that you receive quite a lot of comments every single day, but I really do wish you to keep doing well and hopefully, making videos. Thank you for all your work which gave me many many hours I spent traveling through time with you. See ya.

[@dowsa1234]

What a blast! I remember my friends Windows 95 pc and he had the original Diablo! it was amazing! Thank you!

[@davideliasok]

First used it on my aunt's Compaq Presario CDS-524, nice little "all in one" model with tiny speakers. Been trying to hunt down one since she got rid of it ages ago! Loved the video!!

[@quartztv9925]

Not windows 95 related. Although it was the first OS I ran as a 7 year old (hehe) but I love your videos. They help in so many ways. When I’m cleaning my house, researching things for projects I’m currently working on, twitch video editing for background noise, but lately they help me with my sleep. In no way am I saying they “bore to sleep”, I promise, but your voice is so calming and at the same time exciting that when I can’t sleep they are an easy thing to watch and help me drift off. This video has been one of my favourites and I cannot wait to see more. ❤

[@supersolidsnake7772]

Clint, I've never really been very interested in older tech like this since I was born too late to experience much of it. Thanks for sharing stuff like this in such an informative way! Also seeing Jennifer Aniston along with windows 95 is hilarious.

[@LGR]

Gotta wonder if she has any memory of that at all, haha. I can imagine just going through the script on cruise control.

[@thereallantesh]

I definitely remember the huge hype surrounding the launch of Win 95. It probably wasn't until the following year, but I remember being super excited to install it on my Gateway 486 SX 33 MHz PC with 4 megabytes of RAM. It ran like crap, but I was so happy to be part of the this new advancing technology I didn't really care, lol.

[@MicheIIePucca]

I still remember installing windows 95 for the first time... and the included music video with Edie Brickell. Totally night and day from win 3.1. I was working in a computer store at the time, building PCs, and we installed so many versions of windows 95 back then.

[@cabbitkisser2620]

when window's 95 coming out me & my dad went half on it. so, we preordered it & i still have my copy of windows 95 today

[@Dm.my..telgrm.Freddygives]

Hurry 🎊you just got yourself something from me Send me a message above to claim your prize..

[@Billy_bSLAYER]

Having been 13yrs old and elbow deep in tech thanks to my father, it was an awesome time for EVERYTHING! Music and Technology was just pure bliss 🤘

[@GameJon]

awesome, an LGR on Friday night :D

[@jammnwithjj1459]

This was great! The first PC I built was a 486 DX2 picked from pieces in a dumpster just before the dreaded Y2K. I found a set of Dos 6.22, windows 3.11, and windows 95 with IE.

[@chileo1]

everything about your channel is exactly as it should be. keep up the awesome content

[@GabeNotNewell]

11:50 That added in fart broke me LOL

[@StuartLugsden]

Its always a great day when Clint uploads a video!

[@guardiane]

It ain't much but it's enough to say thanks for all that you do. AND You're absolutely right about the Windows 95 start up tune...it hits those nostalgic vibes hard. I miss those days... I guess I should add my own Windows story to this. My very first ever PC was a 386. It had Windows 3.1 (that BARELY ran) so most of my gaming was done in DOS (it had some weird DOS O/S too). Games that I mostly played were Doom II, Warcraft 1, Wolfenstein 3D, Spear of Destiny, Indianapolis 500: The Simulation, Corridor 7, Battlechess, and a few others that I can't quite remember right now. Warcraft 1 was SO slow and had no sound (since I only had PC Speaker - which the game didn't support) but I didn't care, it was so damn amazing to play such a game, that I bared with it. Windows 3.1 though - I had most fun with that playing the "After Dark" screensaver editor program. SO much fun. Otherwise, Windows was too slow on that system to do much else with it. My very first time on the internet was with this machine - good ol'dial up - 14.4K. Freenet is what we had - it was free internet but with no HTML, no graphics, just text. Yet it somehow work just fine. I remember downloading games and installing them, the fact I could do this blew my mind back then. Games like Prince of Persia, Golden Axe, Commander Keen, etc. Also I played on a lot of BBS's. Eventually this machine just died from overheating - we used it non-stop. Then we didn't see a new PC until maybe 2 years later when my Uncle gave us his hand-me-down Pentium II (Celeron). It was a massive improvement...anyway I could go on forever. The good ol'days.

[@samueljansen6372]

What a beautiful video, really took me back. I was less then 10 years old but I remember playing on our housemates computer and learning the ins and outs

[@briandemodulated]

39:38 That Age of Empires CD has a mighty right-click menu! Never seen so many installation shortcuts. Impressive!

[@LGR]

Microsoft really didn't mess around when it came to their own software! 95 supports fancy right click menus? They're taking ALL the advantage of it.

[@HeadsetGuy]

My most noteworthy memory of Windows 95 was that it was the OS we had when my dad first signed up for AOL (and in fact, he signed up for AOL shortly after upgrading our Compudyne to Windows 95). We had AOL 3.0 first, followed by 3.0A, and we eventually upgraded all the way to 5.0 when it came out (we skipped 4.0 entirely).

[@HeadsetGuy]

Oh yeah, and... He bought the floppy upgrade even though our computer had a CD-ROM drive. I'll never understand why.

[@pankoza]

@@HeadsetGuy because it was cheaper i guess

[@HeadsetGuy]

@@pankoza Probably.

[@arvybudiarto6859]

Wow I remembered upgrading my Epson Endeavour DX2 to windows 95 from windows 3.1, I had so much fun back then. I did remember switching to MS DOS mode a lot though just to play some games, I think Wing Comander 2 was one of them. Thanks LGR for bringing back good memories.😀

[@SlammedZero]

This was so much fun to watch. Takes me back. Checked out some of your other videos on your channel and it definitely piques my interest. New subscriber!

[@joker927]

The fact you name your machines is actually useful. Woodgrain, mega-monster, it's like these PCs are people you meet at parties you haven't seen in a while.

[@AndersEngblom]

Windows 95 was really a truly revolutionary piece of software if you were a PC user. About that rollback to win3.11 - I actually tried it. A friends dad was non too impressed with 95 so we rolled back to 3.11 and it worked quite well as I remember it

[@sebastian19745]

Somehow, when I installed few times Win95 the installer asked if I want Win95 UI or I prefer using Program Manager and Win3.1 UI. I am not sure if that was on a new install or upgrade. And yes, I used once Win95 with Win3.1 Program Manager as UI just to se how was like. And if I remember correctly there was an entry in system.ini (or was it on win.ini?) where one could put any program instead of explorer.exe as UI. I used windows commander sometimes and was hilarious to see friends looking confused to my "WinCommander95" OS.

[@stepheneickhoff4953]

The sad thing is that OS/2 had been around for several years, able to run Windows software but people dealt with unstable Windows 3.1 for years ignorant of its existence.

[@mardus_ee]

​@@stepheneickhoff4953 OS/2 was quite a bit more expensive, wasn't preinstalled (due to Microsoft's uncompetitive practices), and thus lacked the economies of scale in these and other ways. The OS/2 developer kit was mighty expensive, while the one(s) by Microsoft was free.