Unless you got into Windows very recently, you are probably aware of the famous or rather infamous Y2K also referred to as the Millenium superbug. When the millennium (2000) approached, many thought ...

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.

Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, where he covers hardware, research and development, start-ups and the tech industry overseas. Microsoft has taken steps to ensure that Windows 95 ...

Question.<P>Are there any games that run under Win95 that would run faster and more smoothly under Windows 98?<P>I ask this because I'm thinking of fdisking my hard disk and doing a clean install of ...

If you have a PC with Windows 95 or Windows 98, bad news: AIDA64 can no longer work on it. Finalwire has released a new version of the app, and it dropped support for Microsoft's operating systems, ...

Windows 95 is alive and well in the United States Pentagon. Daryl Haegley, program manager for the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Energy, Installations and Environment reported at an ...

Waycam Technologies, a Lincolnshire-based security specialist, has launched a set of data recovery tools that protect PCs from accidental or malicious data loss by creating a "protected area" on the ...

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Update August 24th, 2020: Today marks Windows 95’s 25th anniversary. Check out our ...

3DMark99 supported Windows 95 and Windows 98 at the time, with DirectX 6.0 compatible hardware. After that, 3DMark99 MAX was released, and then the unleashing of DirectX updates and the massively ...

Were you around for the heyday of Windows 98? PC gamers were slow to adopt Windows 95 because the conventional game design paradigm of talking directly to the hardware was a big no-no in the new ...

Look, we'll be honest — the Windows 10 thing threw us for a loop. We all thought Windows 9 was coming, then Microsoft goes with Windows 10. they could have called it Windows TF, because — well, you ...

My sister decided to get a new mouse for Mom for Christmas. I've been playing around with it for the last week and it seems the system is totally hosed, but I'm sure there's a way around this without ...