Is it, or have they been all wiped off the face of the earth?\nI'm wondering what those old versions were like. If it is impossible to find the CD roms, how do their features differ from Windows 95's?
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None of the versions prior to Win95 came on CD.  Windows 1.0 came on 5 1/4 floppys, 3.1 came on 3 1/2 floppys  - you could get it on either HD or LD plus order it on 5 1/4 HD if needed.  The original windows looked nothing like the 3.1 version, it was mostly text that was in a tree format.
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I installed it on my friends computer (because my computer wouldn't handle it) and got bored with it after an hour.\n\nIt reminds me a lot of Mac OS X. Vista and OS X both have an instant search, both now have "widgets", and it seems Vista is trying to copy OS X's interface.\n\nThe only thing I like was how they combined Windows Media Edition Center in with Vista... That's about the only thing helpful with the public wanting to use their computer as entertainment center.\n\nThe thing I noticed (and is going to make people mad) is trying to use what was Outlook Express on Vista. Anyone who doesn't know what they are doing and trying to set up the POP3 and all that information to get their e-mails, will likely not use that program. (For the life of me, I can't remember what the e-mail program is now called.)\n\nI own/run XP, but I have messed around with a Mac at my friends work, so that is why I know of Mac OS X. I'll stick with XP until I get a new PC computer in the future and they fix all the kinks out of Vista (about a year after it's release).
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I don't know where you are but here in Houston I go to independent computer stores, ones that are owned by computer geeks.  I bought a 2 year old Dell refurbished by them for only 200.00.  They completely erase the hard drives before they sell them and then put the OS on them if you want it when you buy it.  So my suggestion would be an independent dealer.  You will never find one at a retailer, becuase they get paid by the software companies to promote their software.
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Yes, I remember.. I just pulled my Amiga 2000 from the attic. I also, have 2 Amiga 500's. I am currently trying to mount a SCSI Cd-Rom into my Amiga. But, have some problems. trying to remember where everything has to go, and what has to be typed in what files (ei mountlist, start-up etc.) is not too easy after all these years.
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I quite like it although the incompatibilities of a lot of my hardware and software will not make me want to pay for it. I'll use my RC2 copy until it runs out. Then i'll just use XP and get a decent Linux install setup.\nI doubt i'll be getting a new PC for a few years so I won't get it bundled with a computer. £220 is a lot, but if it provides much more security and stability than XP/2003 to an end-user who needs to use Microsoft (for some reason or another) then yes, once released it will be worth it.
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there are a tonne of them, but because they're not as big as the ones you mentioned they probably wouldn't be of use as a main operating system because the support/compatibility isn't there:\nhttp://www.freebyte.com/operatingsystems/\n\ntake your pick from just about 100 of them on that page alone!
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what is exactly your d: drive...a cdrom?!\ntry to do that:\nright click on "my computer"\nclick on "properties"\nclick on "hardware" and on "device manager"\nthere you see all your devices,\ncheck if you can see there your cd rom under "DVD/CDROM drives" and if it install currectly, unless,\ntry to reinstall it.
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Why not test them if you already have Vista running?  Considering Microsoft's long-term stance of backwards compatibility I would imagine they would all work.
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One guy probably got ahold of a corrupted version.\nFour other people downloaded it from him.\nFrom there, you have 5 bad copies available to you.
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Recent report put it at something like 10 years instead of vendors longer reported life spans.\n\nI have disk over 5 years old with no issues. It woul dbe my guess if disk are protected from heat and light they should last an easy 20 years but in truth in 20 years do you think we will be using CDs? As new tech comes online you should migrate to it for your backups. This goes for home and business so if you think back we use to have hundreds of floppies, now we have a single CD, 5 years from now we will have a single 100Gb memory stick or some such.\n\nAs always I would suggest having multiple backups be they online or offline. Using a server, USB drive, tapes and CD drive you should have more than enough ways of making sure you never lose those images.
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Another thing you could check is whether the cd is a +R or a -R. Because it really makes a difference which one it is. A +R has compatability issues with many computers where as a -R is more compatible. So I'd check that out too.
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W95INF.DLL is actually a beta version of Windows 95. A very old game you have there! You might as well throw it away.
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No, in fact what I did, was uninstalled all of them, then I went to http://www.java.com and simply reinstalled the 5.9 version...\n\nI did it that way just in case I erased the old ones and it would make the 5.9 not work, and also to make sure I had the most up to date version and it installed correctly.\n\nHowever later I checked it on another computer, you can remove the old versions using windows add/remove in control panel.
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I likke them, too.. I cant find any CD's either..\n\nSo its really pissing me off!!
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Even if it's brand new it could be broken. My friend is a PC tech, and it happens to him alot. He just grabs a new one off the shelf and it's fine. Do you have another CD ROM drive you could put in there just to see if that one works.\n\nAlso Things just don't stop working for the hell of it. So if it did work before, then it's probably broken.
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I had this problem with windows 98SE, it seems to be directly related to the DLL hell that old legacy systems end up in after several years. All I can suggest are the basics, clean up your DLL files if you can, uninstall and reinstall the software (drivers) for your CD-Drive.\n\nThis is all I could dig up on the microsoft support site... I doubt it will help you at all, but it's worth trying if it lists anything you haven't already done.
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They are very stable right now and yeah they do run great. that said i make a habit of never buying the first revision of anything just incase. I think the biggest thing that troubles me about them is bootcamp. I mean how screwed is this they no longer support os 9 but they will run windows.