Windows 95 Setup Overview

This section provides a brief summary of the installation steps in Windows 95 Setup, plus an overview of the new features in Windows 95 Setup.

This information is designed to provide a fundamental description of Setup for administrators who are responsible for installing Windows 95 on many computers. However, the information provided here will also help individuals who are installing Windows 95 on the local hard disk of their personal computers.

Note

In this book, "local computer" refers to a personal computer with Windows 95 system files installed on the local hard disk; a local computer running Windows 95 can also include networking software.

The term "shared installation" is used to refer to a computer that runs a shared copy of Windows 95 from a network server, with few or no Windows 95 files installed on the local workstation.