"Bill Turner" wrote in message
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On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 14:38:08 +0900, "Brenda Ann"
wrote:

The trick with Windows 95 on floppies is that you will have had to make
your
'backup' copies BEFORE installing it for the first time. Silly buggers
designed those disks so that the first install disk is altered during the
install so that it can't be reused except on the original machine it was
installed on. Mind you, there may have been some industrious hacker that
has figured another way around that by now...

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Sorry, but I have to contradict you on that. I have a set of Win95
disks I have installed on three different computers and have never
observed the situation you mention. Perhaps there were different
versions issued by Microsoft?


It's possible, but I do know that of the three sets I have had, the first
installation modified a file on the first installation disk, so that the
installation disk had to look for a code that it had installed on the
original machine... and if it didn't find it, the installation would not
continue.

These could have been either later versions than the one(s) that you are
familiar with, or later, more secure, versions. I have no idea which.