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How to Install Windows 95 on VMware Workstation 17 on Windows 11 PC
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Workstation 17 on Windows 11 PC
Last Updated: March 25, 2023, Tolga Bagci Languages
In this article, we will examine how to set up and run Microsoft Windows 95 on
a new virtual machine using VMware Workstation 17 Pro virtualization software
on a Windows 11 PC.
How to Set Up Windows 95 using VMware

Workstation 17 Pro on Windows 11
Operating System with Intel 12th Gen
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12700H (Alder Lake) CPU

After the Windows 3.1 DOS system, Microsoft released Windows 95, the first 32
Bit operating system with an advanced user interface, on August 24, 1995, for
its users.
One of the most fundamental innovations of Windows 95 is that it has a user

interface instead of DOS. It also includes protocols such as TCP/IP that assist in
establishing network connections as well as support for 32-Bit applications.
With this system, the Plug and Play feature was developed for users to integrate
peripheral devices into computers more easily. The start menu and taskbar were
presented to users for the first time with this version and are features of
Windows 10, which are still widely used today.
With the development of the Internet in the 1990s, Windows 95 was the first
operating system to use large networks. Also, the Internet Explorer web browser
was the most popular period.
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Also, Direct X and Direct 3D were introduced for MS-DOS to run some
programs and items and to be able to run more demanding games.
Although Windows 95 is an old system, some users want to install it and try it.
In addition, some machines or devices with old hardware can be updated with
old operating systems and firmware.
If you have an old computer, it may make more sense to install Windows 95 on
a physical PC, but if you do not have an old PC, you can install this system
with a virtual machine on your computer with up-to-date hardware and system.
How to Create a New Virtual Machine for

Windows 95
In order to run one of the Windows or Linux distributions on the virtual
machine, you need to use software such as VMware Workstation Pro. You can
run old Windows systems on your physical/host computer by using one of the
Player and Workstation Pro software developed by VMware.
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To install Windows 95 with VMware, you must first create and prepare a
suitable virtual computer for this system.
First of all, install VMware Pro on your Windows 11 system and follow the
steps below in order.
Step 1
After installing VMware 17 Pro, run it and click Create a New Virtual Machine
on the main page of the program, then select Custom (Advanced) in the VM
wizard that opens and click the Next button.
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Step 2
Workstation 17.x is selected in the virtual machine hardware compatibility

window because it refers to the latest version of the virtualization software you
have installed on your system.
In order to better adjust the virtual hardware settings of Microsoft Windows 95,
select the compatibility type as 5.x on this screen and continue.
Step 3
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To prepare the virtual system first and then to install it, select I will the
operating system later and click Next.
Step 4
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In the Guest operating system selection step, first, select the platform of the
system (Microsoft Windows), and in the version section, select the system you
will install and click Next.
Step 5
You can change the name of the virtual computer you have prepared from the
Name section. Also, since storing the VM on an external HDD is important for
performance, you can change the installation location by clicking the Browse
button.
If the disk of your physical computer is SSD or NVMe, you can continue
without changing the installation location as you will run the virtual machines
faster.
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Step 6
Assign 1 processor to the Windows 95 guest machine and click Next.
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Step 7
For Windows 95, you must set the RAM size to a maximum of 512 MB. If you
configure more RAM size, your virtual PC will not boot and will restart
constantly.
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Step 8
To connect your virtual machine to the network, select the NAT network type
and click Next.
Step 9
Select BusLogic as the I/O disk controller and click Next.
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Step 10
In this step, you need to choose IDE for the virtual disk type, because the SATA
disk structure creates problems during the installation of drivers. You will
understand the difference between disk structures better in the driver installation
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section.
Step 11
To install a clean operating system you need to use a new disk, so select Create
a New Virtual Disk and click Next.
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Step 12
Use the recommended amount specified by VMware Pro for the size of the
virtual disk, and also check the Store virtual disk as a single file option to store
this disk as a single file on your host and click Next.
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Step 13
In the Specify Disk File window, you can change the name of the virtual disk
you created or change the location where you want to store it. If you leave the
location of the virtual disk in the default location, the virtual disk will be stored
where you will install the VM.
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Step 14
In the summary window, click the Customize Hardware button to add the
Windows 95 ISO file to the virtual machine or to increase the graphics memory.
Step 15
First, click this link to download the ISO file to your computer, and then click
the CD/DVD device to add the Windows 95 ISO image to the VM, then enable
the Use ISO Image File option and click the Browse button.
Select the Windows 95 ISO file you downloaded to your computer and click the
Open button.
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Step 16
In addition, in order to add a USB controller to use your USB devices in your
virtual computer, click the Add button on the Hardware screen and open the
wizard.
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Step 17
Select the USB Controller in the Hardware Type window and click Finish.
Step 18
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After preparing the Windows 95 machine, close the hardware window.
Step 19
When the VM is ready, when it opens automatically on the homepage of the

program, run it and proceed to the installation steps.
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How to Install Windows 95

After preparing and running your virtual computer, when your system’s boot
screen opens, you must first edit the virtual disk you created using the fdisk
command.
Before installing the Windows 95 operating system, you need to format the disk
and create an active partition. If you have an original installation media, you will
need a Floppy drive. After adding the Floppy device to the virtual machine, you
need to open it with the img extension boot file and first prepare the disk and
then copy the system files.
Step 1
The first screen you will encounter after booting your system is as follows. You
do not need a floppy device as fdisk is integrated in the content of the ISO file
you add to the VM.
Execute the “fdisk” command in the A:\> command line to edit the virtual disk.
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fdisk Copy
Step 2
If your system has a disk size larger than 512MB, press Y followed by Enter to
enable large disk usage.
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Step 3
In the Microsoft Windows 95 FDISK options screen, press Enter on the Create
DOS Partition or Logical DOS Drive option.
Create DOS Partition or Logical DOS Drive Copy
Step 4
Press Enter on the Create Primary DOS Partition option to create a primary
partition on the disk.
Create Primary DOS Partition Copy
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Step 5
Press the Y key and then Enter to confirm the maximum disk size usage for the
Primary Partition you created.
Step 6
You must restart your computer for the changes to take effect, to do this click
the down arrow next to the Suspend button and click Restart Guest.
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Step 7
After restarting your virtual system, you may get the operating system lost error
because you are not booting from the CD-ROM.
To open the Boot Menu on VMware, press the ESC key while restarting your
system. Press Enter on the CD-ROM Drive on the Boot Menu screen and
continue.
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Step 8
You need to format the disk on which you created the primary partition, execute
the format C: command on the command line, and then press Y to confirm that
all files on the C drive will be deleted. Press Enter to configure the volume
label character count as a default.
format C: Copy
Step 9
After formatting the C drive, you need to create a new folder to copy the
Windows 95 system files. To create a folder named WIN95 on C, first, go to the
C drive with the C: command and execute the “mkdir WIN95” command.
A:\> C:
C:\> mkdir WIN95 Copy
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Step 10
To view the contents of the CD-ROM device, switch to the relevant driver with
the R: command and view and control the contents of the drive with the dir
command.
Execute the command below on the command line to copy the Windows 95
installation files to the WIN95 folder you created on the C drive.
copy R:\WIN95\*.* C:\WIN95 Copy
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Step 11
After copying the system files, execute the setup command in the C:\WIN95
folder to start the Windows 95 installation, and then press Enter to continue.
C:\WIN95> setup Copy
Step 12
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When Microsoft ScanDisk opens, wait while your system’s file integrity, disk
size, and directory structure are checked.
Step 13
When the Windows 95 Setup screen opens, the wizard informs you that the
installation will be completed in 30 to 60 minutes. Click the Continue button in
the welcome window to start the installation.
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Step 14
Press Page Down to read the Windows 95 license agreement and then click Yes
to accept it.
Step 15
Click Next for the setup wizard to collect information about your computer and
copy the system files.
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Step 16
In the Choose Directory window, select the default C:\WINDOWS location

where you will install your virtual system and click Next.
Step 17
In the Setup Options window, select the installation type as Typical by default
and continue. If you want to make changes to your system, you can continue
with the Custom option.
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Step 18
In the Certificate of Authenticity window, type your Windows 95 product key

and click Next.
Step 19
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In the User Information window, type the user account name and company
information for your system and click Next.
Step 20
Click Next for the setup wizard to analyze the hardware components of your
virtual system.
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Step 21
Wait while the hardware of your virtual computer is being scanned.
Step 22
In the Windows Components window, select Install the most common

components to install the most commonly used services and continue.
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Step 23
If you want to create a Startup Disk, select Yes, but select No as it is not
required in the virtual machine, and click Next.
Step 24
Click Next to start copying Windows system files and continue.
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Step 25
Wait while the Windows 95 system files are copied and installed.
Step 26
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When the installation wizard identifies the floppy disk drive on your system,
disconnect it and click the OK button.
Step 27
At this stage, you will receive a Windows Protection Error while installing on
your new generation computer. In order to run your Windows 95 guest machine
properly, you need to patch it. Now, shut down your virtual machine and
proceed to the next step.
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Step 28
Click Edit Virtual Machine Settings as you need to add a Floppy device to the
virtual machine to patch your virtual system.
After opening the settings of the virtual machine, click the Add button and select
Floppy Drive as the hardware type, and click Finish.
Step 29
Click the button below to download the patch ISO file for Windows 95 to your
computer and to add the ima file to the Floppy drive, select Use Floppy Image
File, click Browse and select the Patcher.ima file.
You can also download Patcher9x-0.7.45-boot.ima from the Vogons.org website
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article or GitHub page.
Step 30
When you boot your virtual system from the Floppy drive, execute the
“patch9x” command on the DOS screen and then press Enter to confirm the
WINDOWS/SYSTEM location.
To patch Win95 for the latest CPUs, select the default option i.e. 2, and press Y
and Enter to apply the changes.
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Step 31
Wait while Windows 95 sets up plug-and-play devices. Also, click OK when

Windows prompts you to type a computer name and workgroup name at this
stage.
When the Network window opens, type a computer name for your virtual system
and also type Workgroup for the workgroup and click the Close button.
Step 32
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Configure your date and time settings depending on the country you live in and
click the Close button. When the Add Printer Wizard opens, click the Cancel
button to configure this step later or close the wizard if you don’t have a printer.
Step 33
After the setup wizard completes the Win95 installation, click OK to restart your
virtual system.
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Step 34
Wait while the Microsoft Windows 95 operating system boots up.
Step 35
Type the user account name you created and click OK. In the Set Windows
Password window, set a new password to make your system password accessible
and click OK. If you don’t want to create any password here, just leave the
fields in New Password blank and click OK.
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Step 36
After your virtual system restarts, right-click on My Computer and click

Properties from the options that appear, and check the version of your system.
How to Install VMware Tools

After installing the Windows 95 system, you must also install the VMware Tools
software. With this software, you can use your virtual PC in full-screen mode by
installing the video card driver. In addition, you can use your host’s devices such
as USB, Webcam, and mouse on the virtual PC.
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Step 1
To install VMware Tools on the virtual machine, click VM / Install VMware

Tools from the Workstation Pro tool menu.
Step 2
Wait while VMware Tools prepares for installation on the VM.
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Step 3
When the setup wizard opens, click Next to start installing the virtual machine
tools.
Step 4
If you are going to use your virtual machine with other products of VMware
Pro, select Complete as the installation type and click Next.
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Step 5
When the virtual machine tools are ready to be installed, click the Install button.
Step 6
When you receive Warning 25010 (Microsoft HTML Help Engine) during the
VM Tools installation phase, click the Yes button. Click OK in the HTML Help
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1.31 Update window and continue.
Step 7
This time, when you get Warning 25009, click OK. Then, if the SVGA driver
cannot be installed in the VMware Tools installation, you must do this manually
later.
Setup failed to install the SVGA driver automatically. This driver will have to
be
installed manually. Instructions for how to do this will appear at the end of
installation. Copy
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Step 8
Click Finish to close the VM Tools wizard. Click the No button in the warning
window asking you to restart your system. To install the SVGA driver manually,
the text document will open automatically, but restart your system.
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Step 9
Right-click on the desktop and open the Display Properties window and click the
Advanced Properties button.
Step 10
In the Advanced display properties window, click the Change button on the
Adapter tab, and then click the Have Disk button on the Standard PCI Graphics
Adapter (SVGA).
When the Install from Disk window opens, paste the location you copied in the
previous step into From: and click the Browse button. Select the
VMX_SVGA.inf file in the opened location and click OK.
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Step 11
Select the VMware SVGA II device in the Select Device window and click OK.
Then click the Apply button to confirm the settings of the VMware SVGA II
device.
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Step 12
Configure the screen resolution to 1024 x 768 and click OK to confirm the
resolution. If the resolution of the VM is not working correctly, you can revert
to the original settings after waiting 15 seconds. Click the Yes button if you
want to set a monitor, otherwise click the No button.
If the resolution of the virtual machine is working correctly, click Yes to use the
resolution you set.
Step 13
Click View / Fit Guest Now or View / Full Screen to fit Windows 95 resolution
to full screen.
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Step 14
You can also drag and drop a file from your host computer’s desktop location or
another location to the virtual machine to see that the file has been successfully
copied.
How to Install TCP/IP Protocol for Internet and

Network Connection
After fully configuring Windows 95, you need to install the TCP/IP protocol to
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be able to access the Internet through your VM.
Step 1
Right-click on the Network Neighborhood you see on the desktop and click
Properties from the options that appear.
When the Network window opens, click the Add button and open the
Component Type window. In this window, check Protocol and click the Add
button again.
In the Select Network Protocol window, select Microsoft first, then TCP/IP, and
click OK.
In the Version Conflict window, you can see the conflicting files in File name:.
Click Yes to confirm overwriting these files.
Step 2
Open MS-DOS Prompt and ping the Google search engine by executing the ping
8.8.8.8 command, and you can see that your Internet connection is OK.
If you ping without installing the protocol, you will see that the command is not
recognized.
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Step 3
When you open The Internet, Connection Wizard will open. You need to
configure your Internet connection with this wizard, so click Next directly.
Select Current to configure your current connection from the Internet connection
setup options and click Next.
Step 4
When Microsoft Internet Explorer opens automatically, you can see that your
connection is working smoothly when you visit the Google website.
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How to Install Chipset Driver

After installing up-to-date operating systems with VMware, VM Tools usually
automatically installs any drivers that are not installed on the system.
But when you install old and outdated systems, you have to search and find the
drivers for the system and install them manually. You can achieve greater
availability and efficiency by installing drivers that are not installed in the
Windows 95 virtual computer.
Step 1
First, open the properties of your Win95 system and click the Device Manager
tab, then check the drivers that could not be installed by VM Tools.
PCI Bridge
PCI Multimedia Audio Device
PCI System Peripheral
PCI Universal Serial Bus
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Step 2
Before you can install drivers for older systems, you need to lower the hardware
compatibility of the VM on the VMware Workstation software. In the virtual
machine configuration phase, we determined the hardware compatibility as 5.x
and configured the virtual hardware settings according to the compatibility
version. However, in order to install system drivers, you need to change the
hardware version again after installing VMware Tools.
When the hardware compatibility is 17.x, when you try to install the drivers, you
will get many errors by the system or the drivers will not be installed. Also, the
system may give a Windows Protection Error.
Now, turn off your Win95 machine and click VM / Manage / Change Hardware
Compatibility from the menu.
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Step 3
When the hardware compatibility change wizard opens, click Next to continue.
In the Hardware Compatibility section, select Workstation 5.x and click Next.
NOTE: If you selected the disk type of your virtual system as SATA, your disk
would fail when you downgrade the hardware version. Because it is stated in the
Limitations section that SATA devices will not be supported.
Step 4
After configuring the hardware version, select Alter this virtual machine and
click Next. You can see the settings to be removed from the virtual machine in
the Review Changes window.
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After changing the hardware version, start the Win95 PC.
Step 5
In this step, you will see that new hardware is automatically found while your
virtual system is booting. If you receive a version conflict warning as in the
image below, confirm the operation by clicking the Yes button.
The Windows 95 audio device was also found by the system automatically, but
the driver was not installed, so click the Cancel button in this window.
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Step 6
When you open Device Manager again, you will see that the driver for the PCI
Bridge device could not be installed.
Step 7
After downloading the driver software of the Windows 95 virtual machine to

your computer from the list at the bottom of the article, open the Chipset Driver
folder and run the Setup file as in the image below.
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Step 8
When the Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility V2.80.008 wizard opens,
click Next. Click Yes to accept the license agreement of the chipset driver
software. After checking the Intel Chipset list supported by the software tool,
click Next and complete the installation.
Restart your virtual system after the Windows 95 Chipset driver installation.
Step 9
When you restart your system, you can see that the drivers for Intel(r)
82371AB/EB/MB PCI Bus Master IDE Controller and PCI to ISA Bridge (ISA
Mode) devices are found automatically.
When you check the Device Manager again, you can see that the Primary and
Secondary IDE controllers in the Hard Disk Controllers have been successfully
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updated.
Intel 82371AB/EB/MB PCI Bus Master IDE Controller

Primary IDE Controller (dual fifo)
Secondary IDE Controller (dual fifo)
NOTE: At this stage, if you are getting the Standard Floppy Disk Controller
error, shut down your virtual computer to install or enable its driver, and then
click Power On to Firmware to enter the BIOS settings of your VM. On the
PhoenixBIOS Setup Utility screen of the virtual machine, configure the Legacy
Diskette A: as 2.88 MB in the Main section and press F10, and save the
settings. After turning on your system, open Device Manager again and check
that the yellow exclamation mark has been removed from the Standard Floppy
Disk Controller device.
How to Install Sound Blaster PCI128 Driver

To install the Audio driver on a Windows 95 VM, download the Sound Blaster
PCI128 driver software from the table at the bottom of the article and copy it to
the VM.
Step 1
After copying the sound driver to your virtual computer, double-click Sound
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Blaster PCI128 and click Yes to accept the software license agreement. Click
Next to install the Creative Sound Blaster sound driver.
Once the Creative Sound Blaster PCI128 hardware is found, wait while it installs
the drivers.
Step 2
After restarting your system, open Device Manager and this time select
Properties / Drive / Update Drive / Gameport Joystick (8-24-1996) to solve the
driver problem of Creative Gameport Joystick device and click Finish.
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How to Install USB (Xusbsupp) Driver

In order to use USB devices on a Windows 95 VM, you must add, install and
configure a USB Controller from the hardware wizard. You can find the USB
Driver in the table at the bottom of the article.
Step 1
After running your virtual system, open Device Manager and check that the
drivers for the PCI Universal Serial Bus device are not installed automatically.
After downloading and copying the USB driver to the VM, double-click
Xusbsupp in the driver folder and click Yes to confirm the installation of the
USB driver in the pop-up window. Click Yes to accept the license agreement for
the Xusbsupp software.
After the eXtended USB Supplement installation is complete, click OK and

restart your virtual computer.
Step 2
When you check the driver for the USB devices, you can see that the PCI
Universal Serial Bus device has a yellow exclamation point.
Select the PCI device and click the Remove button, then click OK. Then click
Refresh so that your system can load the USB drivers correctly.
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Step 3
After refreshing the list of available devices, your virtual system will find and
install the USB Universal Host Controller device.
When you check the USB Controller device, this time you can see that the
drivers have been installed successfully.
1. Intel 82371AB/EB/MB PCI to USB Universal Host Controller

2. USB Root Hub
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How to Use USB Flash Memory

If you want to transfer files from your host system to your virtual system faster,
you can use your USB flash drives or USB external storage devices.
Step 1
Now, insert a Flash Memory formatted with a FAT32 file system into your host
machine and when the New USB Device Detected window opens, check the
Connect to a virtual machine option and select Windows 95 and then click OK.
Step 2
After inserting the flash memory into your virtual machine, click Next to install
the Generic USB Mass Storage Class Device driver when the Driver Wizard
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automatically opens. Click Finish after Windows has updated the USB mass
storage device.
Click Next to install another required Generic USB Hub driver as well. After
Windows has updated the Generic USB Hub device, click Finish.
Step 3
When you open My Computer, you can now use your Flash Memory on the
Windows 95 VM without any problems. When you check the driver of your
USB stick in Device Manager, you can see KINGSTON DataTraveler 3.0 in
Disk Drives.
NOTE: Use the USB 2.0 port of your host device to insert flash memory into
the VM. If you plug your flash memory into your host’s USB 3.0 sockets, your
virtual computer will fail.
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Step 4
Create a folder in your USB in your virtual system and plug your USB memory
back into your host, that is, disconnect it. When your device switches to your
host, you can see the folder you created in it.
How to Delete the Virtual Machine

If you no longer want to use your Microsoft Win95 guest machine, we
recommend that you delete it completely so as not to overfill the capacity of
your host disk.
To delete or clean all files related to your Windows 95 VM, right-click on your
system and click Manage / Delete From Disk, and confirm the operation by
clicking Yes in the window that opens.
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Video
Windows 95 Driver Download

Windows 95 ISO Download
Chipset Driver (infinst_280_win32) Download
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CreativeSound Blaster PCI128 Driver Download

USB Driver (XUSBSUPP) Download
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20 Comments
Kostas 29 December 2021
Excellent work!!! Thank you so much.
Reply
Tolga Bagci 30 December 2021

You’re welcome!
Reply
Brian Proulx 7 January 2022

I am running the latest Vmware Pro and when I restart and hit escape it still
says missing operating system. I followed your directions to the T.
Brian
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Brian Proulx 7 January 2022

also I am running Windows 11
Reply
Tomazo 19 May 2022

@Brian Proulx
You need to download a Windows 95 boot floppy and mount that in Vmware.
Google found it pretty fast for me.
@Tolga Bagci
Excellent written guide! Everything worked like a charm here.
Reply
Tolga Bagci 19 May 2022

Thanks a lot for your valuable comment!
Reply
JT 22 August 2022
1 question. Has anyone tried or can confirm if this works in regular Vmware
Workstation player? Not the Pro version.
Reply
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Grugru 8 November 2022

Thanks for the tutorial !
Just one question for the USB Driver : How do you copy it to the Guest once
downloaded on the host ? Maybe a dummy question but I can’t figure out how
to do that ^^
Reply
Tolga Bagci 9 November 2022

Thanks for your comment. Prepare an ISO file containing the USB drive
and add it to the CD/DVD drive. That’s it
Reply
Jose 5 February 2023

He encontrado esta pagina de casualidad, pero la verdad me a ayudado
mogollon, quisiera darte un millon de gracias porque gracias a la informacion
que has expuesto aqui he conseguido algo que llevaba mucho tiempo intentando
conseguir.
Empece en la informatica en el año 1984 y tengo mogollon de programas retro
en DVD y queria meterlos todos en un disco HDD o extraible, pero para eso
necesitaba que me funcionaran bien en una maquina virtual como si funcionara
en un pc de aquella epoca.
Siguiendo los pasos que has expuesto aqui la maquina virtual fluye de maravilla,
incluso con programas de 3D de aquella epoca.
El sonido siguiendo tus pasos necesitaba conectar un altavoz externo, al final he
conseguido que me funcione sin conectar nada pero cambiando la configuracion
que tu proponias, al final es probar diferentes configuraciones, actualmente el
sonido lo obtengo de un monitor, pero le he dicho que me lo coja de mi host, y
al instalar el audio me lo a cojido genial.
El archivo de la cpu que tu proponias no me funcionaba yo he usado otro que
tenia por ahi, pero al final el resultado a sido genial, el truco creo que es la
compatibilidad y que no disponia de los drivers y los he conseguido gracias a
esta pagina, muchas gracias estoy muy contento con el resultado.
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Tolga Bagci 5 February 2023

Estoy muy feliz de ayudarte. Gracias por tus comentarios. Si usó un
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archivo de CPU diferente, estaría muy agradecido si pudiera ayudar a

otras personas escribiendo el nombre del archivo como comentario.
Gracias.
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Lix 10 March 2023

Where did you get the ISO?
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Quentin 26 October 2023

Wow, thank you for such an explicit and well-made step-by-step tutorial !
It is not often one can find an article of that quality, about that subject in
particular.
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Tolga Bagci 11 March 2023

You can get the ISO file from the table at the bottom of the article.
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Lix 14 March 2023

There’s no URL.
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Lix 18 March 2023

At the end of the article, there are links to drivers, but not ISO
files.
Reply

The first entry of the table has the ISO file. You can
download the rar file from Yandex disk and extract it to
the folder.
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Lix 20 March 2023

The cell of the “Windows 95 ISO” row is blank.

No, there is no problem. Maybe you can look again
in the incognito tab.
Lix 24 March 2023

Apparently I had to open developer tools to see the
elements
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Home VMware Workstation

How to Install Windows 95 on VMware

How to Set Up Windows 95 using VMware

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12700H (Alder Lake) CPU

One of the most fundamental innovations of Windows 95 is that it has a user

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How to Create a New Virtual Machine for

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Workstation 17.x is selected in the virtual machine hardware compatibility

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Assign 1 processor to the Windows 95 guest machine and click Next.

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Select BusLogic as the I/O disk controller and click Next.

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After preparing the Windows 95 machine, close the hardware window.

When the VM is ready, when it opens automatically on the homepage of the

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How to Install Windows 95

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Create DOS Partition or Logical DOS Drive Copy

Create Primary DOS Partition Copy

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C:\> mkdir WIN95 Copy

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copy R:\WIN95\*.* C:\WIN95 Copy

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C:\WIN95> setup Copy

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In the Choose Directory window, select the default C:\WINDOWS location

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In the Certificate of Authenticity window, type your Windows 95 product key

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Wait while the hardware of your virtual computer is being scanned.

In the Windows Components window, select Install the most common

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Click Next to start copying Windows system files and continue.

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You can also download Patcher9x-0.7.45-boot.ima from the Vogons.org website

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article or GitHub page.

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copy R:\WIN95\. C:\WIN95 Copy