In Forum: Microsoft Operating Systems
By User: WinPC
As for what LoneCrusader said, I was very sure that I had a copy of Windows 95 OSR 2.5 once that was like that, and this was back many years ago. However, the CD-R on which I burned the copy is, I'm afraid, no longer in good enough condition to be at all usable, and as for the copy available here, well...
The problem here is that our copy for some reason does not install Internet Explorer 4.0 automatically as it should. Windows 95 OSR 2.5 added on another stage of Setup where the final portion of the operating system was installed, including Internet Explorer 4.0 as well as the updated user interface (also seen in Windows 98; presumably, this version of Windows 95 OSR 2.x was released as an interim to Windows 98). And thus, normally, after the installation of the first portion of the operating system, Setup will continue from there and finish installing the rest of the operating system components - in this case, the ones that were significantly updated since Windows 95 OSR 2 was first released.
The culprit here is likely the WELCOME.EXE that LoneCrusader mentioned. It's also the case that, as he also pointed out, any file placed within the WIN95, WIN98, or WIN9X folders that has the same name as another file contained within a .CAB will be copied instead, and the copy of the same filename contained within the .CAB archive will simply be skipped entirely.
So likely, whoever uploaded our copy of Windows 95 OSR 2.5 either deleted it accidentally, or it had already been deleted by the time that the received a copy of it. Either that, or our particular copy had it deliberately removed at the request of an OEM. But either way, it's definitely not the original.
By User: WinPC
As for what LoneCrusader said, I was very sure that I had a copy of Windows 95 OSR 2.5 once that was like that, and this was back many years ago. However, the CD-R on which I burned the copy is, I'm afraid, no longer in good enough condition to be at all usable, and as for the copy available here, well...
The problem here is that our copy for some reason does not install Internet Explorer 4.0 automatically as it should. Windows 95 OSR 2.5 added on another stage of Setup where the final portion of the operating system was installed, including Internet Explorer 4.0 as well as the updated user interface (also seen in Windows 98; presumably, this version of Windows 95 OSR 2.x was released as an interim to Windows 98). And thus, normally, after the installation of the first portion of the operating system, Setup will continue from there and finish installing the rest of the operating system components - in this case, the ones that were significantly updated since Windows 95 OSR 2 was first released.
The culprit here is likely the WELCOME.EXE that LoneCrusader mentioned. It's also the case that, as he also pointed out, any file placed within the WIN95, WIN98, or WIN9X folders that has the same name as another file contained within a .CAB will be copied instead, and the copy of the same filename contained within the .CAB archive will simply be skipped entirely.
So likely, whoever uploaded our copy of Windows 95 OSR 2.5 either deleted it accidentally, or it had already been deleted by the time that the received a copy of it. Either that, or our particular copy had it deliberately removed at the request of an OEM. But either way, it's definitely not the original.