Windows 95 was Microsoft's first venture into operating systems.  Its popularity spread rapidly as it allowed users to connect to the Internet quite well and application developers brought out a lot of games and applications for it.

Microsoft has issued a Service Pack release for it and anyone intending to keep it should download and install it. Click here for the Windows 95 Service Pack 1.

While Windows 95 performs quite well, it has a tendency to lockup on occasion.  Additionally, it still uses the old DOS file system which is prone to corruption.

Microsoft has now brought out Windows 98 and is recommending that people upgrade to this system.  Also, Windows 95 is not fully Y2K compliant however, don't despair. It won't crash on January 1, 2000.  It's just that functions that process dates won't work properly.