[cctalk] Re: WIN 95

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 &lt;cctalk(a)classiccmp.org&gt; Date: 2025-08-30 10:16 a.m. (GMT-08:00) To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org Cc: Van Snyder &lt;van.snyder(a)sbcglobal.net&gt; 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 <> cctalk(a)classiccmp.org&gt; 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.