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by Lammy 80 days ago
> Whenever an installer finished, Windows went and checked whether any of these commonly-overwritten files had indeed been overwritten.

> Basically, Windows 95 waited for each installer to finish

How could it tell that a particular process was an installer? Just anything that writes to the PROGRA~1 or WINDOWS folders?

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Egg on my face for not scrolling down to see the comments after reading the article. Thanks!