Win95C (OSR2.5) definitely.

Don't buy into the FUD about the IE4 desktop crap it comes with - you can abort that after first boot and keep IE3.

Windows ME's hatedom has most to do with the removal of the Command Prompt boot option and the "WHERE THE FUCK IS MY PROGRAMS WINDOWS ME WHY ARE YOU HIDING MY START MENU STUFF" despite that feature being introduced earlier in Windows 2000. Oh, and general protection errors are vague and don't even tell you what happened - just quickly shuts down instead.
That's not to say it's a bad OS - i really love that "Open with" feature. Zi- er, Compressed folders out of the box was convenient for early driver installing as well.

Windows ME was a fine update to Win9x, sans DOS stuff. It's just that 2k had been released and people were ecstatic about it. People then realized how shameful Win9x really was...

Can I get USB support working with Win95C? I've got a Pentium MMX 233 machine with a Voodoo 1 and I don't feel like installing Win98SE on it as well, but I'll have to if I can't get my usb flash drive working on 95. Are there any drivers like the Universal USB drivers for Win98SE, but for Win95 😜?

F2bnp wrote:

Windows ME was a fine update to Win9x, sans DOS stuff. It's just that 2k had been released and people were ecstatic about it. People then realized how shameful Win9x really was...

Can I get USB support working with Win95C? I've got a Pentium MMX 233 machine with a Voodoo 1 and I don't feel like installing Win98SE on it as well, but I'll have to if I can't get my usb flash drive working on 95. Are there any drivers like the Universal USB drivers for Win98SE, but for Win95 😜?

OSR2.1 (B) and OSR2.5 (C) had USB Supplement patch.

Check this driver out "USBSTR95" at http://www.mdgx.com/web.htm . I just found it and says beta 1. Maybe there is something better listed as I JUST found that. 🤣

Personally I never really cared for or even noticed the improvements introduced in later versions of Win95 when it was still relevant back in the 90's, but Win95C is the way to go if you plan to make it run on a relatively modern PC.

I really don't see why people say win96 or i98 were so bad - I never had a problem with either of them crashing. I am still using 98 today. 😜

OSR2.5 was basically IE4 + OSR2 + USB addon + new CPU support patch
OSR2.1 didn't have IE4 nor the CPU support patch, but everything else was the same... I prefer OSR2.1 myself because it is clean and free of BS

Even OSR 2.5's USB support was very limited compared to 98 or ME or 2000. 2.5 has that infernal Active Desktop nonsense, the only good thing about it is bug fixes for Pentium Pro and II processors. That would be a nice patch for OSR 2.1.

RogueTrip2012 wrote:

Check this driver out "USBSTR95" at http://www.mdgx.com/web.htm . I just found it and says beta 1. Maybe there is something better listed as I JUST found that. 🤣

Careful with that, it causes instability. My experience with it has never been too hot

Hey, I found this: http://toastytech.com/files/cruzerwin95.html !!!
Going to try it out.
So OSR 2.1 is better than OSR 2.5?

Just ftr, you can identify the versions of 95 by looking at the timestamp.
OSR 2.1 will have April 1997 and OSR 2.5 will have November 1997.

I knew a site where it had pics but I can't seem to find it right now 🙁

TheMAN wrote:

OSR2.5 was basically IE4 + OSR2 + USB addon + new CPU support patch
OSR2.1 didn't have IE4 nor the CPU support patch, but everything else was the same... I prefer OSR2.1 myself because it is clean and free of BS

What do you mean clean and free of BS?

Barry_Purplelips wrote:

TheMAN wrote:

OSR2.5 was basically IE4 + OSR2 + USB addon + new CPU support patch
OSR2.1 didn't have IE4 nor the CPU support patch, but everything else was the same... I prefer OSR2.1 myself because it is clean and free of BS

What do you mean clean and free of BS?

Free of IE4.

I mean, what damage does it do to have it installed?

Made things slower when IE was integrated to 95.

DosFreak wrote:

Made things slower when IE was integrated to 95.

This also changed the GUI, right?

Again, a reminder, YOU DON'T HAVE TO INSTALL IE4! IT IS NOT FORCED
You can have Win95C with IE3 if you just cancel the 'we gotta complete your system' dialog after you finished installing Windows.

although if you would like to use daemon tools you would need shell update 😉

Daemon Tools on Win95? for the love of God, don't even attempt it.

I use DT on 98SE and ME all the time. Works fine. I'm not sure if I've used it on 95 however.