TL;DR: CrystalMark Retro 2.0, a free benchmarking tool from Crystal Dew World, now supports Windows 95, 98, and Me, after a year of development. It allows users to compare retro and modern systems.

Back in the 1990s, my fellow PC chums and I thought we had stumbled across a magic trick with Windows 95, something that we thought nobody else knew about: holding the shift key when you hit restart ...

If you’re still using a computer you bought during the Clinton administration, interesting news: Crystal Dew World, developers of apps like CrystalDiskInfo and CrystalDiskMark, have released an update ...

Clearing CMOS resets BIOS to the default and helps fix boot issues on a computer. Clear the CMOS and try installing Windows 11 again. The following steps will guide you on this: Turn off your PC and ...

It’s something of a shock to be reminded that Microsoft’s Windows 95 is now 30 years old — but the PC operating system that brought 32-bit computing to the masses and left behind a graphical interface ...

In the early days of computerization, storage space was a valuable commodity. The U.S. company Syncronys, led by German ...

Today the BBC ran a segment celebrating 30 years of Windows 95. The choice of retro machine to anchor their set-piece, though, might start up something more than a computer. Enjoy the video, embedded ...

Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen is once again spilling the beans on how Windows 95 became one of the most influential ...

For those who were around and used a PC back in the 1990s, you'll undoubtedly remember the hype surrounding the release of Microsoft's groundbreaking operating system, Windows 95. It was a strange ...

Computing history: Raymond Chen is once again reminding us that back when Windows 95 ruled the software world, coding was a completely different beast. The Win9x user interface eventually made its way ...

Some people can barely get their elderly grandparents to look at a computer, but one 98-year-old man spends 10 hours a day painting on his Windows 95 computer using a simple Microsoft Paint program.

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