Does anyone know of a laptop manufacturer that makes new laptops compatible with Windows 95? I still have my old Win95 CD; it is not for Bill Gates' pen^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Microsoft or the manufacturer to decide what OS I use. If someone could list (or knows of a list of) manufacturers that are friendly to old OSes, I would appreciate it. The companies I have contacted so far (Dell, Gateway) are complete a**h***s when it comes to answering questions. They only want to ship product, refusing to answer any questions.

Without the intention to sound sarcastic, this is like asking if any car manufacturer makes new cars suitable for 1934 Chevy engines. The answer is most likely no, since the manufacturers wishes to produce the most asked for products, which is faster and with more memory than Win95 can handle. It will have to be custom built, IMHO. Nigel

win 95 won't even boot on a computer that has a cpu of 300 mhz or faster with out installing a timing patch, which has to be installed from windows. so, if one cannot have windows 95 already installed, with the timing patch, then its a 'catch 22' situation. and, there would be a driver problem for video , sound .etc

yea, like uppercrust said, you'd need the patch & it has to be installed from windows. I don't know why you'd wanna run Win95 these days, except on a very old machine...it doesn't support USB & USB is almost a necessity these days! I'm not very familiar with laptops, but if you insist on installing Win95 on a high Ghz machine, you'd 1st have to underclock it to 300mhz or less...then install Win95 & the patch, then return the CPU to it's normal speed. But I don't think it's possible Asus A7N8X-X 1800+ @8x210mhz 512mb PC3200 Ti4200/8X 128mb WDC 60GB

Another possible complication is drivers. You would have to find Win95/Win98 drivers for all the laptop components. That might turn out to be kinda tricky.

That 300-MHz glitch (actually it's a 350-MHz and above glitz) is specific to AMD K6/2 processors. I have Win95B installed on a Celeron 500, with NO patches required. Check Here for information from Microsoft. I remember seeing something about a speed limit for Win95, but if I remember correctly, it is in the 1-GHz range. Now, the driver problem may be (IS? a separate issue entirely. HTH Dave If a Man is talking in the forest and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?

I run Windows 95 just fine on a P3 800 MHz with 512 MB of RAM. You will run into problems, however, if you are running it with a CPU faster than 2.1 GHz or with more than 512 MB of RAM.