I got Win95 as soon as it was available. Took me over a dozen attempts and
hardware reconfigs to get it to install. After installation, I hated it. On
my 486-33 it was dog slow. And I don't know why but even to this day I find
point and click frustratingly slow. Maybe because I could type with two hands?
I remember just finding Win95 added time to everything I wanted to do, not
including when it crashed. I found it so much easier to do something like
search for a file with my trusty DIR /s. Windows search couldn't find a file
taped to its face. Even today if I do a search for an app sitting right there
in the start menu it often can't find it. Ever since then it feels like
Microsoft has been adding steps to formerly simple tasks, which means more
mouse clicks and more frustration for me.I actually uninstalled Win95 and
reverted to DOS after 2 weeks. Part of it was frustration but part was my PC
ran my BBS, and Telegard multiuser did *not* get along with Win95. I only went
back when games forced me to, because they began requiring DirectX.Still am
faster and better with CLI.BradSent from my Galaxy
-------- Original message --------From: Van Snyder via cctalk
<[email protected]> Date: 2025-08-30 10:16 a.m. (GMT-08:00) To:
[email protected] Cc: Van Snyder <[email protected]> Subject:
[cctalk] Re: WIN 95 On Fri, 2025-08-29 at 23:15 -0500, Eric Christopherson via
cctalkwrote:> On Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 7:21 PM Murray McCullough via cctalk <>
[email protected]> wrote:> > > Microsoft released WIN 95 on this day 30
years ago.> > > Its first retail availability was August 24.> > > > It was a
game changer> > for the average PC computer user but more important than
Windows> > 3.1? Not> > so sure.> > > > That's a great question. I had only
started using PCs in 1993, so I> don't> have an opinion. But for me personally
I think W95 was the beginning> of the> gradual end of my use of DOS outside of
Windows.
