Can you install Windows 95 on any computer? However, Windows 10 is preinstalled on my laptop?
Yes you can. However, you won't find any drivers to get on the internet etc.
Which is basically a valuable security feature…
He can access the internet from Internet Explorer and then download the drivers from Microsoft.
No, that usually no longer works because today's hardware works very differently than hardware back then. Therefore the setup of Windows 95 recognizes e.g. No more hard drives.
But what is possible is that you install Win 95 as a virtual operating system, and you can do that with https://www.virtualbox.org/...albox.org/. The Virtualbox then simulates old hardware especially for Win 95.
You start Virtualbox under Win 10, and within Virtualbox you install Win 95, and you can then boot it there and then you have a working Windows 95 in this way. 😊
You can install ANY OS on a PC. Several OS are also possible.
However, Win95 support has been discontinued for many years. Therefore it is a high security risk for the laptop and there are no drivers for new hardware
That would only work if the hardware was extremely outdated. Even if it is just a bit out of date, Win95 will no longer provide driver support for the new hardware.
Example, 6th generation Intel Core CPUs were the last ones that still ran Win7, as far as I know.
Right.
Windows 95 hit the market sometime in 1995 or a little sooner or later. So it is around 25 years old, so it has no drivers at all for some of the hardware installed today, and it does not know a lot at all.
You will already have your problems with USB, because USB did not exist back then or it was announced, but no one had ever seen any devices.
But even today's processors will probably not work with it.
You could try installing Windows 95 using a virtual machine. Possibly. Is there an environment such as Virtual Box that does it.
But I would recommend you, if you want to use something other than Windows 10 or 7, at least to use Windows XP, as it showed significantly fewer crashes at that time than the rather bad Windows 95.
