LGR 486 Upgrade! Installing & Enjoying Windows 95

Imagining traveling back in time and explaining to someone in the mid-90s that someday in the future, millions of people would spend 45+ minutes watching someone else install a Windows 95 upgrade...just for fun. 😎

As a kid born in the late 90s, my very first interactions with computers were from using windows 95/98 machines and playing games like the sims and rainbow six with my brothers. Your videos always give me a huge nostalgia trip to those days. Thanks for the content!

I honestly had no idea that 3d pinball HAD music until now!😅

34:10 - When it comes to soft power switching and the "You can now turn off your computer" message, it was the opposite experience for me, as a kid. My mind was completely blown how the PC can _turn itself off._ Like, no need to press a button, it's just... it turns off! It seemed like a wild concept. Then again, I similarly enjoyed how you could open and close a CD tray through software.

Holy cow! I spent tens of hours in Space Cadet with XP and just now I learned that it had music. And such an awesome tune!
Thank you so much for your videos, Clint! They bring me so much joy in such... uneasy times. Hope everything will be alright in the coming times.

That error sound remix is why your channel is the best retro tech channel on Clip-Share.

Oh man, my grandfather taught me how to use windows 95 when I was 6. Our mom had set the home computer to boot in DOS, thinking it'd keep us from the games (spoiler: it taught us how to read and type).
I dunno why my grandfather was so "with it". He kept being with it 'till the end. Win 95 colours still remind me of him, thanks for posting this blast from the past!

I remember when this came out. I was 15 and my friend and I (working together today as developers) were interning at an office/computer store. When we unpacked disks we brought from home the store owner just said "I'm going to meet a client... thus I never saw anything." That night I upgraded at home. Good days

I still remember the day I upgraded my family pc to Windows 95 as a 14 year old - it really was very exciting at the time

This is totally the era I'm so nostalgic about! Back in the late 90's we only had an Amiga 500, but all my friends had various other systems. One of the most influencial was this guy who had a Windows95 system. I saw that PS/2 or serial Microsoft mouse on the background (original install screen of Win95, maybe the actually had a mouse like that, I'm not sure), they even had Microsoft Plus! installed too and holy hell, you finally showed off the Duke Nukem Screensavers, I'm so happy that you finally touched on this, I saw that screensaver set there too. I saw and played Duke Nukem 3D first there, and my user name is that for a reason :) Saw and played Lode Runner, Need for Speed 3, Quake, Incubation - Battle Isle Phase IV, Networkd Q Rac Rally at this friend's place. Every single game was so... determinative? Maybe this is not the right word. I think this was a Pentium 1 system because it could run Quake. I'm still a fan of that era and still a fan of NFS3, Duke3D and Quake to this day, thanks to these wonderful times at this buddy's place. Thanks for making this video! :D

I still remember when we got our Win95 machine, it was such a huge upgrade over our previous IBM clone. Me and my brother went straight from playing ASCII only door/BBS games to stuff like Warcraft 2 and Crusader.
Having actual sound was nice too since I could hook it up to my grandfather's old stereo receiver and annoy everyone with tracker tunes I downloaded off of AOL. (using either MOD4Win or CubicPlayer)
Oh, so many memories....

Our first family computer had Win95 on it, cost us ~$4500 at the time as it was "top of the line" at the time. I learned so much on that computer as well as how to use the internet. I still have such fond memories of that machine to this day.

Man. I remember getting Windows 95 and spending around 8 hours of a LAN party to get local network shares to work. The ability to browse a friends shared files while doing other stuff was amazing.

I was today years old when I learned that Space Cadet had music.
Thank you for bringing back all those memories

I remember going to a launch party at Incredible Universe and it was, well, incredible! The excitement and energy in the crowd was so fantastic! My family didn’t “get it” and thought I was crazy going to a “party” at an electronics store. Windows 95 was everything that it was hyped to be. What an awesome memory. Thanks for the video!

I remember doing this upgrade on my family's first PC, a Tandy, from 3.1 to 95. I spent way to much time play HOVER! and "edutainment" games like Math Blaster. This was a great stroll down memory lane.

At school there were a lot of Pentium 2s with Windows 95 and someone put Midtown Madness on all of them and if we did all the work in class we had a LAN party the remaining time :) Also Worms Armageddon!

I definitely remember the huge hype surrounding the launch of Win 95. It probably wasn't until the following year, but I remember being super excited to install it on my Gateway 486 SX 33 MHz PC with 4 megabytes of RAM. It ran like crap, but I was so happy to be part of the this new advancing technology I didn't really care, lol.

I was managing a software store when Windows 95 came out. Since we were a Microsoft gold reseller we got to co-host the local launch party. Win 95 was an incredibly big event. We had been using the Beta for months so we were used to the software but it was still amazing to see the reaction to it.

I memorized my Windows 95 CD key 25 years ago. To this day, I still know it. The nostalgia from this OS is just...something else.

This video brought back so many happy memories, and watching you play Doom on Windows 95 reminded me the countless hours we spent with my cousins during weekends and holidays doing just that!

That NFS menu music always gives me chills. Such a masterpiece of its time

Great nostalgia trip, Clint. Thank you. I remember my uncle installing Windows 95 Upgrade, CD-ROM version, on multiple computers across the family before pesky Internet verification was a thing. I don't think we had Internet Explorer, but Netscape instead, and it's wild to think you would have had to pay $25 extra for that back then. But I do recall him also getting the Plus pack and sinking hours into the games and such included with it.

Oh man this is my childhood. I should probably not have been playing Doom when I was like 8 but oh well.

I still remember when I was a kid and did the 95 upgrade on our family PC, because of course I knew more about the thing than my parents even at whatever young age. When the 95 boot screen came up, I remember running to get my parents, because "this is a historic moment!" I don't think they thought so. But the fact I still remember it says otherwise!

Thanks for your great channel! As a child of the 90s it is extremely fun to watch your videos! These almost always make me laugh! Especially when I think about what absurd accessories there were back then! For example, I had glasses that would transfer my head movement into games! The packaging sold it to me at the time as a life-changing gaming experience! In the end my PC and I were wired like a Borg and it still didn't work! You just had to get in touch with the technology back then! I miss that times so much! Thanks a lot for you and your great work! Best regards from Austria!

29:33 Your 3d text wallpapers are always top-notch 💖

I haven't heard that start up sound in about 16 years. It's soothing in a way I didn't expect.

Man I would have been beyond happy to have grown up in this time period… sure I was born the same year XP was made, but I would have loved to experience the launch of 95, 98, and heck even 2000! They seem like wild times that I would have loved to experience.

Hey Clint! Great video and I'm excited of learning that you have the same kind of memories I had as a kid (maybe around same time), you know, like an uncle with a brand new pc and you being so surprised every second you played with it.. Yeah, that's just about the kind of memories I have and that I try to share with brazilian audiences through my YT channel as well (a very small one, I must say), your channel is my main inspiration but I lack your unique sense of humor, great editing capabilities and everything that made you the best "retro pc" channel in the world. I really expect this compliment to reach you although I don't ever think you will ever be able to answer my comment as I know that you receive quite a lot of comments every single day, but I really do wish you to keep doing well and hopefully, making videos. Thank you for all your work which gave me many many hours I spent traveling through time with you. See ya.

I remember my dad bringing home our first computer sometime in 1996. It was a black Compaq Presario 2200 running Windows 95. It came with Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia and I nearly wore that CD out exploring every topic it had to offer. After that our whole family was playing Hover and we were all trying to beat each other's high scores, and one day my dad brought home Star Trek Borg and I fell in love with that right along side him. Even though we don't have that computer anymore, several years ago I found the exact model for sale and picked it up. With some work I got it running again and installed Windows 95 on it from the restore disks. I love having that PC just for all the memories and early computer knowledge it gave me.

My life in '95 was great. Good times all around. Thanks for the memories.

My first experience with Windows 95 was on a Packard Bell Pentium we just got in 96 I believe. It was pretty magical and revolutionary feeling for sure. Being a kid seeing Packard Bell's home interface blew me away even though we all laughed at it now.

Such memories...I had a retail version of Windows 95, 13 disks in PT-Portuguese here in Brazil, I still remember the box smell and when I grab my parents money and went to store to buy it....I had a 486 DX266 that time...awesome days.

The 486 build was how I found and sub'ed to LGR. Great to see it again as a star of an episode!

Clint, I've never really been very interested in older tech like this since I was born too late to experience much of it. Thanks for sharing stuff like this in such an informative way! Also seeing Jennifer Aniston along with windows 95 is hilarious.

So many memories. I love the plus pack.
Pointless fact, for the Da Vinci theme, Bill Gates actually licensed and scanned Da Vinci's original work to use as the background.
It's awesome.

Oh man this was a wonderful nostalgic trip! I had my Gateway 486DX-66, and remember anxiously awaiting this release and hurrying to Wal-mart to get a copy. PnP saved soooo many hassles! No more IRQ nightmares! ....now I must find a version of Space Cadet to play again!

Legit would love to watch a series where you just edify us on various parts of computing history. I know you occasionally do episodes like that on weird things that happened but heck I'd listen to you talk about the more mundane history as well

This Computer has grown over the years just like the channel. A magnificent machine. Keep up the content.

So much nostalgia. I love the fact you made improvised some '90s trance from the looping sound effect!

When I upgraded our 486 from 3.1 it wasn't just a task, it was a event, installing it and the anticipation of using the new system was as much exciting as using it. I miss those days

I don't think I've ever heard the actual MIDI music of 3D Pinball before.
This was such an amazing video! Thank you so much for creating it and for making us part of the opening experience.
That classic cloud loading intro of Windows 95 is still one of my favorites.

What a trip back into the past. I remember installing this and being so excited, then absolutely hating it when it crashed all the time and didn't play nice with most of my software

The error sound loop mixed with the beat cracked me up, brilliant 😀

This brings back so many fond memories. The poor reliability of operating systems and software back then (especially in the early 90s) is what got me into a comfortable IT career today. Thank you for posting this and being awesome as always.

Just watched the entire video, it was an amazing time travel, where I could finally see how the Windows 95 Install packages looked like! For me Windows 95 was the first ever OS I used when I was a kid (alongside MS-DOS), and I have fond memories of that! I remember the joys of listening to MID files through the OPL3 sound chip (I was gathering as many MID files as I could), browsing through the shovelware and magazine cover CDs (that made me discover some nice shareware stuff, including Warcraft 2). Fun times!

Love the 486 update videos, probably some of my favorites on the channel.

When my father's company upgraded their comouters to Windows 95, the old 386 units with MSDOS were put up for sale. Dad bought 2 and brought them home for my sister and I to learn how to to type and use a computer. So many good memories playing games like Crystal Caves and Duke Nukem!

Would be a lot of fun to see you create a website using FrontPage - and ideally host it afterwards. I had the same experience missing the "It is now safe to turn off your computer" - I didn't think it was safe that it would turn off on its own when I later upgraded.

This is the first OS I remember having on a handy down laptop as a kiddo and gosh it was iconic... and then the 98 upgrade!

everything about your channel is exactly as it should be. keep up the awesome content

That Win95 intro sound though 👌
My first PC was an IBM Aptiva 95, with Win95 plus a bundle pack of other programs like Encarta 95 and games like Caesar II, my first browser was Netscape Navigator. We bought it from a big box retailer (Makro), it was a pretty sweet deal back in early 96, I was 9 years old at the time, that PC stayed with us until 2002 when we upgraded to a WinXP PC, another amazing OS.

So many memories! I really loved everything about Windows 95. It was a revolution. But even on Windows 95 I kept using the File Manager instead of the Explorer because I was used to it and really liked it. Good times.

I loved that "Inside your computer" theme so much back then. Used to think it was so cool that looking at my desktop I could "see" what's in my computer. I think I ended up settling on the space theme though. I loved the sounds that went with that. Not sure if that was 95 or 98.

And this is the first time in my life hearing the music from Pinball. I used to play the crap out of it in middle school! Guessing my home pc at the time and school computers didn't have midi support? How cool is that! LGR always just gets me thinking about the past! Great Video Clint!

I remember when my dad brought home our windows 95 pc, it was built by Datel which is a local computer company that our previous 486 was also built by. Seeing a pc with a CD rom and speakers was so cool. Upgrading from a 14" shamrock monitor to a big 17" sony was really nice too. It really felt like such a huge upgrade over the old system

Thanks Mr LGR, always a trip down nostalgia lane.

Ahhh! Nostalgia. Some of the best days. I do miss the old Windows logo. And the screen saver is such a sadly missed feature of the older versions of Windows.

When you pulled out the 3.5" box it gave me incredible nostalgia for installing the upgrade from floppies on my family's 386 right when it released. I was so friggin' excited as a wee lad

Yes... memories. When Win 95 came out, I had been rocking the final Beta version on my 486DX2-66 for about 6 months. When people from school were coming over, you should have seen their faces when they saw that I wasn't running 3.11 anymore!

This brought some cool memories. I remember it being so revolutionary for its time, UI-wise. Still, my favorite Win9x is 98SE which had many upgrades to Windows 95 but the stability that Windows Me didn't have. A cool, little time capsule.

Wow you really took a bullet for us going to the Windows 95 upgrade route on a 486. Brings so much memories back. Yeap I was one of the poor bloke who had a 486 66Mhz and then upgrade it to Win 95 using the floppy disks. Got the same experience you got with the games playing slow. Broke down and got a Cyrix 5x86 chip and make sure to get Win 95 in a CD. Such a big change going from Win 3.1 to 95.

This brings back memories of me having to use 25 floppy disks to install 3.1 before upgrading to that shiny new optical disk, also installing our new fresh new plastic tech smell of what was our new 24x speed CD-ROM drive, good times

man this is retro computing experience at its best! I was more or less 13yo when Win95 came out, it was the very first time that I saw on tv people in line at the stores to buy something related to PC. I had a really awful PC at the time, my 486 33mhz was singing its swan song when we updated it to Win95 but man, that really felt like the PCs where jumping into the future!

I worked for an IT company back then, DOS 5.5 was the way to go. And then suddenly things started to happen. Great video, so many things that I already forgot about.

I count myself fortunate to have lived through these times as a teenager, windows 95 was a huge change and then access to the internet blew my tiny mind. Thanks for the nostalgia trip 🙏

This is bringing back good memories of the Windows 95 computer my parents had between ~95 and 2000. I remember playing hover from the Windows 95 disk, enjoyed the crap out of that game. Before that I'd only played DOS 2D games. I also remember when I got a game that didn't run due to too little memory, so we went to the city centre to buy more. We got an 8 mb stick, upgrading the system to 16 mb total! Good times.

I played Space Cadet Pinball primarily on XP, i didnt know it had background music. Pretty sure the version packaged with windows is bugged to make it not work under most conditions .Very nice getting it to work, never heard it before!

This is nostalgic. My first OS ever then I'll never forget upgrading to 98.

I still remember installing windows 95 for the first time... and the included music video with Edie Brickell. Totally night and day from win 3.1. I was working in a computer store at the time, building PCs, and we installed so many versions of windows 95 back then.

Awesome. Back in the day we had a windows 95 pc. It was an used computer that was propably running Windows 3.11 and a 486. We had it with a Pentium 100mhz and 8mb ram, ive didnt know everything that was inside this machine but we had tons of fun with it

The nostalgia is real. I was like 10 when this came out and remember wanting it badly too. Always love your videos Clint. I got my fancy modern gaming rig these days, but I think I may have to make an old school build of my own sometime. I want to play some games as intended again. Emulation isn't the same. The 90s were a special time in history for many of us.

Ahh the Win95 days.. was a fun and good os and I did love working on Front Page Express as a kid making my own Web sites. Things improved so much for me when Win98 landed but props all the same to the OG OS. 😊

Thanks for making this video Clint! I was 12 when win95 came out, and my dad installed it on his 486, which later became my 486. Used that thing till early 1999. The gaming situation is so recognisable, forget running anything post ‘96-ish on a rig like that. But man, it was magical, felt like we stepped into some kind of fresh future!

Ah, the nostalgia. When 95 came out, I was almost born!

the ie starter kit contains a few game demos, and also has a banger soundtrack, so there's absolutely a use for it lol
there's times where I just pop it in just to play the games on there and listen to the music on it

My most noteworthy memory of Windows 95 was that it was the OS we had when my dad first signed up for AOL (and in fact, he signed up for AOL shortly after upgrading our Compudyne to Windows 95). We had AOL 3.0 first, followed by 3.0A, and we eventually upgraded all the way to 5.0 when it came out (we skipped 4.0 entirely).

Hi Clint, I dont have memories to Windows 95 as I was born in the 2000s but I love watching your stuff its somehow relaxing and calming for me, helps with anxiety, anyways I love your stuff!

It ain't much but it's enough to say thanks for all that you do. AND You're absolutely right about the Windows 95 start up tune...it hits those nostalgic vibes hard. I miss those days...
I guess I should add my own Windows story to this. My very first ever PC was a 386. It had Windows 3.1 (that BARELY ran) so most of my gaming was done in DOS (it had some weird DOS O/S too). Games that I mostly played were Doom II, Warcraft 1, Wolfenstein 3D, Spear of Destiny, Indianapolis 500: The Simulation, Corridor 7, Battlechess, and a few others that I can't quite remember right now. Warcraft 1 was SO slow and had no sound (since I only had PC Speaker - which the game didn't support) but I didn't care, it was so damn amazing to play such a game, that I bared with it.
Windows 3.1 though - I had most fun with that playing the "After Dark" screensaver editor program. SO much fun. Otherwise, Windows was too slow on that system to do much else with it.
My very first time on the internet was with this machine - good ol'dial up - 14.4K. Freenet is what we had - it was free internet but with no HTML, no graphics, just text. Yet it somehow work just fine. I remember downloading games and installing them, the fact I could do this blew my mind back then. Games like Prince of Persia, Golden Axe, Commander Keen, etc. Also I played on a lot of BBS's.
Eventually this machine just died from overheating - we used it non-stop. Then we didn't see a new PC until maybe 2 years later when my Uncle gave us his hand-me-down Pentium II (Celeron). It was a massive improvement...anyway I could go on forever. The good ol'days.

So much nostalgia here, our first pc was a Compaq Presario with windows 95 and I somehow did not know that the pinball game had a banging soundtrack, so many hours spent playing that and I thought it was just ambient pinball machine sounds

I was still using DOS 3.1 when '95 launched (on a 8086) and was still using win 3.11 for work groups at work until well into 1999. I guess in many parts of the UK we were not early adopters. Had friends with '95 and often had to help them out trying to get games to work (booting into DOS mode).

I remember being in college using the beta versions of Win95 just because tcp/ip was supported native rather than using winsock on Win3.1fwg. I installed that beta on just about every Windows computer I touched. And then followed up with NCSA Mosaic (eventually on to early betas of Netscape). Ah, the memories. When one person could actually print out ALL of the HTML commands on one sheet of paper. There was not even a way to center text on a webpage.

LGR I remember the hype and buying Windows 95 that very day. The cool thing about version A of 95 was being able to run every dos game I had. I was able to adjust the upper memory address to keep as much of the 640k extended capacity . Later versions 95 B and C took more address space away. Good times and I want to install a legacy build like i remembered. Have fun man!

Soon as that error noise started I thought 'you should sample that'..... Then you went and did the next best thing, using your PC as a modular synth haha 😂

I fondly remember playing racing games on our win 95 machine. It ran like a slideshow but I really didn't care back then. Was already more than happy it worked in the first place. You easily adapt to what you have if you don't know any better

So many great memories. I was 10 in 1995 and completely hypnotized by the two music videos and the game Hover! I had found on the CD. I could not believe my eyes. I'd eagerly wait for the weekend, home from school, to wake up super early and play Doom and Descent on mute not to wake up my family. I didn't even know Space Cadet had music! Guess my PC at the time wasn't really playing nice with the MIDI synth either

I bought my first PC in 1995. It was a Pentium 90 with 4mb of ram and a whopping 1Gb hard disk. It came preinstalled with Windows 3.11! In early 1996 I bought a modem and got hold of Win 95. I remember being blown away by how good it was. Happy memories getting on to the internet for the first time

Thank you, this is exactly what I needed. I think its time to finally upgrade.

We jumped from 3.11 on a 486 to Windows 98SE on A P2 266 with MMX. It was mind blowing since it had DVD support. A lot of the edutainment we had ran perfectly fine on the 486 with CD players, what blew out mind though was the 98SE computer had a DVD drive and we bought DVD movies to watch on the family computer connected to the TV. Wild times.

I was so excited about this update, it was like jumping right into the future!

I worked at a local mom and pops computer store when Windows 95 came out. On day 1 I was tasked with pre-installing it on a few PCs, it was pretty exciting. I remember the owner looking over my shoulder saying "See if you can find that Rolling Stones song". He wanted that playing on the PCs when people came into the store.

Dangerous Creatures was my favorite theme on 98, I'm so happy to see it here tbh. I have an AI upscaled verson of the background as my background to this day on windows 11

I got the same pack for my PC back in the day, a memory I will never forget. upgrading from cd was so cool.

My first time using Windows 95 was my mom's laptop from work. It was so well designed that I literally understood it instantly. The start menu made so much sense to my 6 year old brain. I had used Macs at school, but this was so much easier and friendlier.

Going from Windows 3.1 to Win 95 was mind blowing for its user interface! My family was able to fully use the computer without doing DOS prompts and those hidden icons!

Think about that time I had my first encounter with Visual Basic, Sim City, and that fricking paperclip in Office. But this era was just the beginning. For me my main memories start somewhere Pentium 100. With games like red alert, carmageddon, dune, and later games like half-life, grand theft auto.

My first computer was an Acer Aspire with windows 95 in 1995. I remember The Rolling Stones commercial. I also 3 years later when windows 98 came out which was Also hyped big time. I bought it the release date. The start menu was so innovative that when they tried to remove it (windows 8) everyone complained. Thanks for the nostalgia, Clint.

Man, this takes me back. I remember installing Windows 95 on an 80 Mhz 486 with 8 megabytes of RAM when it came out. While I did think it was awesome, it gave me the feeling of kinda playing with it instead of really using it because the performance was, well not ideal. Did anyone run Windows 95 on a 60 Mhz Pentium back then and what was the performance like?

Thank you for taking the time to install my favorite operating system of all time. Look at it go! Good stuff, Clint. I used 95 on my dad's computer around when it came out, just to play some HE titles and The Way Things Work. Eventually, I got my own AST 486 in '96 and spent hours playing around in MS Paint, opening as many windows as I could at once. LEGO Island was too much for my AST, so I had to use my dad's computer to play it. Eventually, I got his computer as a hand-me-down, after it got 98 installed on it, and the AST made its way to the trash. Decades later, I dug up the exact same model on ebay, and I find myself installing 95 in so many varieties on all sorts of hardware to enjoy the wonders it provides.