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Anthony Garvey <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 20 Dec 2000 09:55:45 -0500
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> Hello , I was told that pcbuild deals with win95 so here goes.
> I have a packard bell multimedia r515 that I am getting ready to
> do a clean install of 95 to. The computer was a rental and now we own
> it . The cd that the rental store gave me is a burn-in copy of 95
> and not the original. I read someone else`s post a while back that
> said the cab files on the win95 cd stay on the cd and do not put them
> local like I heard 98 ect, does. Is there any way to tell if the whole
> cd is here . Thanks in advance- Ray.

I looked at two W95 CDs:

Windows 95a Upgrade  - the entire CD contains 631,603,200 bytes, the cabinet
files are in a folder called "WIN95" containing 34 files, 0 folders
containing 32.2MB, all files are dated 7/11/95

Windows 95b OEM - the entire CD contains 625,934,336 bytes, the cabinet
files are in a folder called "WIN95" containing 56 files, 0 folders
containing 79.0MB, all files are dated 8/24/96

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