Microsoft seemingly tampered with the ‘Add New Hardware’ wizard in the Control Panel, slowing it down considerably.

It’s now 25 years ago that Windows 95 was launched, the operating system that gave the majority of 1990s PC users their first taste of a desktop-based GUI and a 32-bit operating system.

Windows 95 became popular very quickly. Windows 95 improved networking and added long file names and Plug and Play, the latter a welcome relief for users. Memory limitations, plaguing users in ...

Many IT product names hide a story, a joke, or a message. We reveal what lies behind the seemingly normal names of hardware ...

Windows 95 has the honor of being one of the most revolutionary operating systems ever created. Although Microsoft already had a GUI-based operating system in Windows 3.11, Windows 95 was completely ...

Here are the best emulators you can use to play old games on your modern Mac. Emulators Are Legal, Downloading ROMs Is Not ...

When Windows 11 arrived, it received a rather lukewarm reception - something that continues up until today, in some respects (as evidenced by the OS adoption figures) - and some of that reaction ...

Introduced during the reign of Windows 3.1 and two years before Windows 95, it used the same Program Manager user interface as Windows 3.1, but provided greater stability. In 1996, Windows NT 4.0 ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A tech tinkerer decided to put the homebrew Nintendo 3DS port of DOSBox to the ultimate test ...

Microsoft's Windows 11 is finally gaining significant traction in the market, nearly three years after its initial release.

The company provides “primate research and development support to the scientific community,” according to its website.

Now, there’s a world record speedrun, installing Windows 95B in just 1 minute 10.9 seconds. The current best attempts are collected in a Google Sheets document. So far, there have been few ...