Windows 95 was released on August 24, 1995. To celebrate the 20 years of Windows 95, here are 20 things we missed and love about the operating system. Very light memory footprint -- Windows 95 can run on 4MB of RAM. Although you can buy more memory and get an extra 2MB, 4MB is all you need to run Windows. Be prepared to clean up your hard drive as you will need all 50MB of space to install Windows 95. I remember creating batch (.bat) files to run a an anti-virus, disk partition and create disk RAM before loading Windows 95. Windows 95 introduced everyone to the gooey or graphical user interface. I remember using the internet before Windows 95 and all we had was Pine to access our email and and Lynx to browse the web (Lynx is a text-based browser). Read more in our articles including "20 Years of Windows 95: 20 Things We Loved About Windows 95" and "Windows 7 Preview: Less of the Same".
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Jun 13, 2026Windows 95 was released on August 24, 1995. To celebrate the 20 years of Windows 95, here are 20 things we missed and love about the operating system.
Very light memory footprint -- Windows 95 can run on 4MB of RAM. Although you can buy more memory and get an extra 2MB, 4MB is all you need to run Windows. Be prepared to clean up your hard drive as you will need all 50MB of space to install Windows 95.
Our coverage of windows 95 history includes: "20 Years of Windows 95: 20 Things We Loved About Windows 95"; "Windows 7 Preview: Less of the Same"; "The 6 flavors of Windows 7". Each article provides unique insights and information.