This is a setup disk for new Windows 95B installs. You need to create a basic boot disk (command.com, io.sys and msdos.sys), and unzip this to the disk. There is a setup.bat file that creates the necessary directories and files to make your CD-ROM drive work. Please view the readme file on the disk for more info. Works only with Win95B.
Download the Win95 Setup disk

This is a setup disk for new Windows 98 installs. You need to create a basic boot disk (command.com, io.sys and msdos.sys), and unzip this to the disk. There is a setup.bat file that creates the necessary directories and files to make your CD-ROM drive work. Please view the readme file on the disk for more info. Works only with Win98.
Download the Win98 Setup disk

The CIH Virus, or Chernobyl, as the press has dubbed it, is one of the nastiest suckers around. It activates on the 26th of the month and there are three varieties. CleanCIH is the most effective killer I've found and it's only 18k in size! Boot off of a clean floppy and run this from the command prompt.
Download CleanCIH.exe

Want to keeps tabs on the temperature inside that bad-ass machine of yours? Motherboard Monitor is probably the most popular little utility for doing that. Easy to use and very detailed info. It is the only thing I have loading at startup on my own system
Download Motherboard Monitor

A very common problem with Final Reality is that it seems to be very sensitive to version for one single DLL file. If this file gets replaced by another piece of software, FR will suddenly stop working and you get an error message related to the DLL. This zip file contains the correct versions for both Win95B and Win98. Just unzip and copy to your Windows/System folder.
Download the Final Reality DLL's

Versions of Windows 95 from OSR2.1 on, have the USB supplement on the CD under Other/USB. Windows 98 automatically installs it if you have USB ports enabled in the BIOS. However, if you happen to be running OSR2.0, you need to download and install the supplement yourself; so, here it is. This file will not work for Windows 95a, there is no supplement for this version.
Download the USB supplement

This is a fabulous little utility from Ontrack that used to come on disks with new hard drives. I've used it many times for setting up new drives. Transfers everything on the drive; works with any Operating System. Just install your new drive as a slave to the old. Partition and format it, and run filecopy from Start/Run in Windows. Please view the readme on the disk for more details.
Download Filecopy

An excellent benchmark and burn-in utility for your graphics sub-system. Also outstanding as a CPU stress-test when run in software mode. Can be set to loop continuously, and run un-attended. Bonus is, that it looks cool!
Download Final Reality (7.5MB)

A tiny little (6k) utility for identifying your motherboard chipset. Particularly useful if running an AMD Irongate (Athlon) motherboard and you wish to know what stepping you're running and whether or not the board is Super Bypass capable.
Download Chip ID

A fantastic utility from H. Oda that provides a wealth of information about your CPU, core, stepping, cache speed and amount. A MUST have for the hardware tweaker!
Download CPUID

While no software based hardware testing utility is going to be 100% reliable and accurate, this small piece of freeware comes as close as some of the commercial products. A good addition to your diagnostics toolkit. The memory tester included is a bit weak, so TestMem (next cell) is also made available from the same author.
Download Diags

A solid RAM testing utility that is amazingly thorough, particlarly in light of the fact that's it's freeware.
Download TestMem

From AnalogX, a great utility for monitoring network traffic. Particularly useful for those using broadband to connect to the web. Tracks bandwith totals for both up, as well as down and monitors both average and peak speeds.
Download NetStat Live!

Microsoft Windows 95 has a software timing loop error that manifests itself in AMD K6 processors at 350Mhz and above. This update fixes the problem on machines running Windows 95B (OSR2). There is NO patch for 95a, so this will NOT work if that's what you're running. Windows 98 does not have this problem.
Download update (95B ONLY)

Do you find the Active Desktop and Internet Explorer integration in Windows 98 annoying? Kind of a hassle to go thru the settings and get rid of it? This little 113k utility from Annoyances.org let's you untangle that mess with a single click!
Download IE Off!