Oracle Database Designer (1996) 0 Windows

Oracle Database Designer is a database model generation tool and database editing environment for Oracle Databases and ODBC compatible database. It is a "lower cost" and less powerful product than Oracle Designer/2000.

• 1.0

Internet Explorer (1995) 212 Web Browser Windows MacOS Unix Mac OS X

Microsoft Internet Explorer is a web browser application created by Microsoft primarily for Microsoft Windows. It was initially based on Spyglass Mosaic. At various points, Internet Explorer was also available for MacOS, Solaris, and HP-UX.

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• 5.5
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Eudora Pro (1995) 0 Communications Windows

Eudora Pro, originally developed at the University of Illinois, was a very popular commercial POP 3/SMTP internet e-mail client for Microsoft Windows and Macintosh. Qualcomm also produced a free, less featured version called Eudora Light.

• 2.x

Microsoft BOB (1995) 29 Novelty Windows

Microsoft BOB is a Windows 3.1 graphical shell intended for novice users. It presents your desktop as a series of "rooms" with various selectable objects, and assists you with a friendly animated guide. It features vector based graphics that scale to any size or resolution screen, supports user profiles, and includes rudimentary editor, calendar, address book, and checking programs. It was created as a response to Packard Bell Navigator and is somewhat comparable to Apple At Ease and 3DNA.

• 1.00
• 1.00a

Microsoft OS2 Presentation Manager For NT (1995) 0 Windows

The OS/2 Presentation Manager for NT is an add-on that provides compatibility with 16-bit OS/2 1.x GUI applications.

• For NT 3.51
• For NT 4.0

Windows NT 4.0 (1995) 363 Windows

Windows NT 4.0 is the successor to the Windows NT 3.x release. In this release, the user interface from Windows 95 was integrated, making NT just as easy to use as its consumer counterpart. Internet Explorer was bundled, providing a web browser out of the box. Speed was improved by moving components into kernel-mode, at the expense of security and reliability - changes Windows is suffering from today, and is being reverted. NT 4 was followed up by Windows 2000. | 1.0 | 2.x | 3.x | NT 3.x | 95 | NT 4.0 | 98 | 2000 | ME | All |

• Cairo/Hydra
• 4.0
• Patches

McAfee VirusScan (1995) 1 Utility DOS Windows OS2

McAfee VirusScan was a very popular and reliable virus scanner during the late 90s. Notably, they distributed a free shareware version of their product. VirusScan was often pre-loaded with OEM computers.

• 2.x
• 4.x
• 7.0

Forehelp (1995) 0 Windows

Forehelp is a Windows Help Authoring Tool for Microsoft Windows 3.x.

• 2.11

Microsoft Plus! (1995) 51 Utility Novelty Windows

Microsoft Plus! was an add-on package to Windows that added desktop themes, screen savers, sound effects, power-toys, and other assorted goodies for the home user. Plus! 95 also included Internet Explorer 1.0, which was not included in all Windows 95 distributions.

• 95
• 98

IBM WorkPlace Shell (1995) 0 Windows

The IBM Workplace shell is an alternate desktop shell for Microsoft Windows 3.1. It gives Windows the appearance and feel of the IBM OS/2 2.0 Workplace Shell.

• 1.x

Microsoft FrontPage (1995) 25 Publishing Windows

Microsoft FrontPage is a WYSIWYG HTML editor/Cuisinart for Microsoft Windows.

• 1.0
• 1.1
• 97 (v2)
• 98 (v3)

PartitionMagic (1995) 23 Utility DOS Windows

A tool from PowerQuest, and later Symantec, that enables manipulation of partitions through its own bootable media. PartitionMagic can shrink, grow, or move partitions without the need to backup and restore files in that partition. It supported a variety of file systems, and the core DOS-based parition tool fit on a bootable 1.44mb floppy disk. It was extremely popular, and made installing or removing multiple OSes much easier.

• 2.x
• 5.x
• 6.0
• 7.x

The T.Rowe Price Variable Annuity Anlyzer (1995) 2 Financial Windows

This is a promotional utility for Windows 3.1 distributed by T.Rowe Price, an investment management firm. You feed it your financial information and it computes your optimal retirement plan based on services provided by T.Rowe Price.

• 1.x

Microsoft TCP/IP-32 (1995) 12 Windows

Microsoft TCP/IP-32 version 3.11b is an update to Microsoft's TCP/IP-32, a 32-bit protected mode VxD TCP/IP network protocol stack for Windows for Workgroups version 3.11.

• TCP/IP-32 3.11b

Corel Photo-Paint (1995) 1 Graphics Windows

Corel Photo Paint is a bit-mapped graphics editor optimized for photo manipulation. It competed against Adobe Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro, and was often a companion product to the vector based CorelDRAW. It includes a large number of special effects, a color management system, brushes, layers, and scanner support.

• 5.0

Windows Starts Here (1995) 0 Windows

Windows Starts Here is a Windows tutorial from Microsoft Press that shows you how to put Microsoft Windows to work for you.

• 95
• 98

Advanced Task Manager (1995) 4 Utility Windows

A task manager replacement for Windows 3.1.

• 1.x

GoldWave Audio Editor (1995) 2 Audio Windows

Audio editor for Windows GoldWave is a digital audio editor for Windows 3.1. It has realtime oscilloscopes, intelligent editing, and numerous effects such as echo, flange, distortion, mechanize, and reverse. The intuitive user interface makes GoldWave easy to learn and use.

• 3.x

PaperPort (1995) 0 Document Windows

PaperPort is a document management system frequently bundled with scanners. It can OCR scanned documents and convert them to PDF.

• 3.x

Microsoft Organization Charts (1995) 2 Presentations Windows

This is the org chart software that shipped with earlier versions of Microsoft Office.

• 2.00

SoftRAM (1995) 6 Windows

SoftRAM and SoftRAM 95 were products that famously claimed to effectively double avaialble memory to programs without adding hardware. It was later proven that these products were a scam, and did absolutely nothing. It competed against similar tools such as Hurricane, MagnaRam, and RAM Doubler

• 1.x
• 95

VoiceView Talkshop (1995) 2 Windows

VoiceView Talkshop is a utility for "VoiceView" compatible modems, that enables communicating voice and data over a phone line at the same time.

• 1.x

Microsoft 500 Nations (1995) 0 Reference Windows

Multimedia software from the Microsoft Home series providing reference material relating to the North American Indians. The actor Kevin Costner also appears in it.

• 1

Gravis Ultrasound Drivers (1995) 6 DOS Windows

Drivers for the Gravis Ultrasound sound card products.

• GF1 (DOS Win31)
• GF1 (Win 9x)

Newshell (1995) 10 Windows

Newshell, or the "Shell Technology Preview Update", is a shell update for Microsoft Windows NT 3.51 that gives it the appearance and desktop from Windows 95. Newshell is a beta product, and only meant to demonstrate how the upcoming NT 4 would look.

• Beta