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Windows 95 detected installers by looking for magic words and hoping for the best

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Windows 95 detected installers by looking for magic words and hoping for the best

Veteran Microsoft engineer Raymond Chen has confirmed what we all suspected about Windows 95: it guessed when a setup program was running. Rather than relying on any special flag or marker, Chen explained that Windows 95 looked at the program's name to determine whether it was a setup application. It did this by checking the app against a list of...

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