Win 98 and later you could copy the files after install and manually update the registry, but installing from the HDD was usually faster even taking time to copy the CD to the drive in the first place.
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New post summary designs on greatest hits now, everywhere else eventually. Linked 2. Related Hot Network Questions. Question feed. Retrocomputing Stack Exchange works best with JavaScript enabled. You actually can load 3. If I were you I'd use the most recient which is 6. MS-DOS is a simple install. I believe it's three disks. Put disk one in, type install. I'm not sure where you can get the MS Windows 3.
Keep in mind that there are two versions of 3. There is the standard version and the 3. You probably want to get 3. My personal suggestion is to check out Microsoft Technet. The only catch I can think of is export rules.
I don't know if any restrictions apply to Egypt. My recolection is you must do an install. You can't just copy the files. I believe the install creates hardware specific files.
Sure there probably is a way to edit the install on the CF but you have to know what is broken in the install to fix it. It sounded like even the hardware provider was having trouble with that.
On a side note. As long as you have a computer and the software you shouldn't need to buy a new computer. But like in most businesses time is money. In the long run it might cost you less to just buy the preconfigured computer. My company is willing to pay for a few machines to sit on the shelf. Kinda nice. No matter what you choose to do to get it working I would make a mirror copy of the working machine.
Hardware and all. From Wikipedia : Windows 3. The series began with Windows 3. Subsequent versions were released between and until the series was superseded by Windows During its lifespan, Windows 3.
As with Windows 3. It included Minesweeper as a replacement for Reversi though Reversi was still included in some copies. The effect of this was to increase system stability over the crash-prone Windows 3. Some older features were removed, like CGA graphics support although Windows 3. Truetype font support was added, providing scalable fonts to Windows applications, without having to resort to using a third-party font technology such as Adobe Type Manager.
Truetype fonts could be scaled to any size and rotated, depending on the calling application. In Enhanced Mode, windowed DOS applications gained the ability for users to manipulate menus and other objects in the program using the Windows mouse pointer, provided that DOS application supported mice. Windows' own drivers couldn't work directly with DOS applications; hardware such as mice required a DOS driver to be loaded before starting Windows.
Icons could be dragged and dropped for the first time, in addition to having a more detailed appearance. This brought back a lot of good memories. I installed it on a 32bit netbook just for kicks. You should hear some of the comments I get when I go into the local coffee shop to use the wifi internet with it. Thank you so much!!! I have my old floppies in a frame on the wall no way to install them.
Hi thanks a lot for software offered they help me remake my old travel Texas available regards. Very kind of you, but the disk images are damaged.
Just mount image 6 and run "dir". I tried to install with them and windows won't launch; a bunch of its executables are zero-length. This works well when you need to bypass the windows 98 upgrades disc setup programs request to verify your right to use it.
And by the way, cool website. Okay, so the install of Windows 3. The effect is particularly noticeable when going into Windows 3. EXE by itself does it help? If so, the autoexec might just be wrong. Having a problem trying to put this on an old Dell Latitude. Doesn't matter if I'm trying to install Windows 3. This will restart your computer and begin the setup program.
Is there something I need to do to make these floppies bootable or something before I copy the image over to them? That's weird. I just tested it in VirtualBox 4. Mode would not boot for a full 1. It also gives you those funny errors like this:. I am 60 years old. I really need Windows 3. Without getting technical coz I'd only confuse myself!!! Paint on this version of windows was different from what it is today and that's the one I need!!
Please could someone be kind enough to explain to me how I could install this version of Windows on my PC, or maybe I could install it on another old PC I could get my hands to avoid losing data on my lovely new PC. I would very much appreciate it so m if someone could please tell me step by step how I can install this using the links on this web page? THese are great! Thanks so much. I have never been allowed to properly install windows from scratch well, I did do a reinstall of XP but that's different but now I can expirence what it was like to install from DOS from scratch, thanks thanks so so sos sooooooo MUCH!
Hey, do you know if I would be able to run this version of windows off of a USB on a modern laptop that I took the C: drive out of? Great to have these images - I have the floppies, but no floppy drive. Funny they're still called floppies when real floppies disappeared long before these came out.
Floppies were the real deal when tape drives cost thousands. Sic transit omnia. Thanks for these 3. Time to go total nostalgia. I get these weird 'Library file damaged' errors when I try to use certain aspects of windows or open certain programs. Any ideas what is causing this?? I know this is a late comment but thanks for the Win3. If you're installing Win3. DRV on my harddisk. For colors do I just edit the system. I have P1 system and have installed windows 3. Can any one tell what would be the problem of having this message and what can we do to resolve the same.
Thanx for this I hace images of all tthe previous versions but the DoS files were on a CD thatgot brokken my history is now compete. Thank Thanks and Thanks again. Any answers to that. Check out my ideea here Sir, I believe you are in the wrong place That's like asking why anyone would ever want to own a NES anymore because the newer systems are so much 'better' Kirsle Hey, I did not know you could tell me a program to format floppys.
Dos to me that does not fit on a floppy disk. I downloaded this because I need the old Cardfile program to get at some old personal addresses and contact details from my original Win 3. I have these on a CD somewhere, in a.
You did a great job on this VM. If anybody's looking for software to load up on this for the full effect we have a large library of this over at WinWorld. If you would like to view various other old DOS operating systems, I found these pages.
So what's the easiest method to transfer files two and from the VM, do you have to make a floppy image of anything you want to copy than mount it? Hi, hy host is Ubuntu, and I'm running dos and win 3. Do you know any workaround for sharing files beterrn host and guest in this case?
Other ideas:. Great page, glad to see such a current maintained website in relation to MS-DOS, and as I can see from the navigation menu on the left, much more.
Needed pure MS-DOS disk images to teach a strong foundation in using computers in general, and to build from there into current technologies while showing ties and connections to the legendary MS-DOS along the way, once again, glad I found this site. I will be coming by often. Thank you! On this page I have an "unpacked" Windows 3. It will not be directly bootable, however. BTW: I used a command similar to this to automagically mount and copy all files from the Win3. Hi, This is really great.
I have been looking for windows 3. Just to remember how far the computer world has come in a very short time. Its good you got it here for download. I will try it out. Another question I have is this. I am very new to virtualBox and want to give it a go. If I have an image of my windows 8 box and I want to restore this on a virtual box, how do I go about this?
I hope you will be able to enlighten me on this. I read a post asking why would anyone want to run this old OS. I go back to 3. I still have it running on a old Dell Optiplex slim line. I know its going to die one of these days, so this site has put the bug in me to get on a newer machine.. I also run a similar vintage Optiplex tower with Win98, using it as a file storage machine. The fun part of 6. Anyone remember the old game of Eliza? Vista, hands down, but this old stuff is a kick to fool with.
I purchased my first computer in late During the 's I wrote a complete set of accounting programs while being an Accounting Manager. Sure, the PCs today are better but not faster for the work I was doing.
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