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by Mindless2112 4638 days ago
Or just pop in your Windows 95 CD. I don't know why they didn't just install it along with Windows 95 -- it was pretty reasonably sized if I recall correctly.
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Perhaps it was small by todays standards but I remember my first Windows 95 PC had a 290MB Hard Drive. A fresh Windows 95 install took up maybe 30MB or 40MB if I remember correctly so even if Hover was only 1MB it was still a relatively significant amount.

As an aside... I also remember Windows 95 was available on floppy, I think maybe there was 10 floppy disks in total (?). I seem to recall that they used special floppy disks that held more than the usual 1.44MB.

Windows 95 also shipped on floppies. See Raymond Chen's post mentioning how they used high-capacity floppies just to save the money from two disks: https://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2005/08/19/4536....