[Coco] Windows 95 help

[John Guin]

It does not verify the contents - only the name.

When I did my year of tech support on Win95, we had to do this a few times
for people.  I seem to remember the "Upgrade" version of Win95 needing more
than one file, though.

Try
Win.exe
Win386.exe
And win.com  

(I may not be remembering the filenames correctly.)

John

-----Original Message-----
From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
Behalf Of Rod Barnhart
Sent: Saturday, March 28, 2009 7:49 AM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] Windows 95 help

I used to work as a bench tech, and Win98SE did seem to be the most stable
version of the Win9X series, followed by Win95 OSR 2.1. But back to the
original issue... If a copy of Win.Com is all that is needed for the update,
you might be able to simple go to the C drive and type 'copy con win.com' to
create the file, without having to dig out your Win3.1 disks. Depends on if
the update verifies the authenticity of win.com before running. I can't
remember if it does or not...

--
Rod Barnhart


On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Bruce W. Calkins <brucewcalkins at charter.net
> wrote:

> If it is the OSR2, or OSR2.1. version of Windows 95, it will be labeled as
> such.  I have been told by people who made their livings setting up and
> fixing computers for other people that Windows 98SE was the most stable
> version.  ME brought in several features that were to be standard on XP,
but
> the NT based code was not a smooth fit with the DOS overlay code of Win
3.X
> through Win 9X.
>
>
>
> I run Windows 98SE on my CoCo Emulator machine with the unofficial windows
> 98 update and an updated Daylight Savings Time update.  Since these
machines
> do not go on-line I have not had any problems with viruses or other
> exploitation.
>
>
>
> Bruce W.
>
>
>
> P.S. Google; ultimate OS update, unofficial Windows 98 update & Windows 98
> Daylight Savings Time update.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>  So the win 95 of floppies would be the first edition? I bought a  sealed
>> win 95 at a yard sale last year.
>>
>> Sent via iPhone by O2
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>> On 28 Mar 2009, at 12:12, "Bruce W. Calkins"  <brucewcalkins at charter.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>  The latest version of 95 had USB support.  It was built in with 98,
>>> although rather clunky compared to XPs USB implementation.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Bruce W.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  As I remember.. There was Win 95, then Win 95 OSR2, then OSR2.1...
>>>>
>>>
>>>  Basically they had updated drivers and better TCP/IP stacks.
>>>>
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