Beyond that, any lag from Win95 era was probably because of spinning hard drives...

komodo99 · 2026-01-05T17:14:20 1767633260

I can attest to this one, 6 months ago I had a vintage pc I needed to rehab due to the curse of the proprietary ISA card. Imaged the failing drive to an ssd, sata->IDE adapter. P3 733MHz, 128 mb ram, W98SE, its astonishingly fast and responsive. Boots nearer to my memories of MSDOS 6.22 firing up than anything else.

Acrobat reader still performs like a lead balloon though, even a miracle can't fix that one.

xnx · 2026-01-05T16:58:39 1767632319

I don't know how I used Windows before I installed Everything.

OoooooooO · 2026-01-05T17:08:37 1767632917

Deactivate web search via regedit, then it works.

xnx · 2026-01-05T18:09:01 1767636541

Good advice, but there's still a lot of utility in Everything that is not built into Windows.

CapsAdmin · 2026-01-06T00:23:27 1767659007

The responsiveness of windows 2000 in a vm is insane. It feels like every action happens instantaneously.

Contrast this with the "os" of my LG oled monitor. It seriously takes 5 seconds to open the settings menu.

userbinator · 2026-01-06T00:51:43 1767660703

Contrast this with the "os" of my LG oled monitor. It seriously takes 5 seconds to open the settings menu.

I'm not sure what they use these days, but 10-15 years ago the MCU in a monitor was likely to be a ~10MHz 8051.

userbinator · 2026-01-06T00:53:19 1767660799

A whole installation of Win95 with Office95 is only a few hundred MB and would fit entirely in RAM on a modern system. You can run a VM of it like that to experience the extreme speed. Even a browser these days uses several times that.