Chain of Fools : Upgrading through every version of windows (HQ)

[Nymphibious]

lol@"twatface"

[PleaseNeverDoThis]

That was brilliant, thanks for that.

[HinataChan30]

Ah...3.11.

First OS I used.

[martums]

many thanks for taking the time to go through all that work and sharing it

[RancidScorpion]

@therasteri Bravo sir this is not stupid at all but rather informative, and nostalgic thanks for the video and time you put Into it

[SNEM0SDN5]

this is so fuckin stupid

[Yoshistar6340]

8:46 and can u believe it, reversi!

[sjl0523]

@Yoshistar6340 IT'S JUST 99.DOLLARS!

[ThErOck232]

Oh my God! This reminds me of Chip's Challenge! Where can I find that game again?!

[MumblingMickey]

we do tend to bitch MS all the time...but when you consider the huge advances in technology in the past quarter century coupled with the fact almost no two PC's are used for the same thing...and there are many different flavours I'm pretty shocked this actually worked out.

It'd be interesting to see if programs that used config files and obsolete .dlll's would continue to work.

I also can't imagine anyone would have an 1980's PC on their desk and a windows 7 dvd in their hand.

[TopOnTheAndroid]

@MumblingMickey I have a widescreen laptop running W7, and a IBM AT on the same desk, both running at the same time. Questions?

[Ythyn]

For people concerned about Windows ME, turn on annotations..... >_>

[omega0zero]

Where is ME?

[TheSCTom]

@omega0zero Since he used Win2K, he couldn't use WinME since there was no upgrade path there. You would have to go the 95>98>ME>Vista route, skipping 2K completely.

Notice that there are no versions of NT included either.

[charger334]

@omega0zero in the garabage

[1robowen]

hahaha notice the username at 6:35?

[sipos0]

Great video. Also, nice calming voice. You should do audio books. 

[TheGreatBritishGamer]

When i was a kid, I was so glad that when we upgrade to windows 98 from windows 3.5, I could still play Freeski!

[dtalley11]

What about windows ME? I remember upgrading from 95-98-ME

[gregfolkert]

@dtalley11 Said right in the Video that upgrading from ME - 2000 was not possible, therefore skipped.

[jma111000]

Extremely interesting. I would love to have a huge room with a computer for each operating system. That would be cool. One day I'm feeling xp, or maybe win 7. Or I could go back to 98...

[acharylee77z]

Your vid went viral on Vanuatu

[JUSXTREME96]

I remember around 2003 when my parents first got XP to upgrade over ME and there still was the old Screen Savers and Wallpapers. Then, that PC broke and my parents got a new PC preinstalled with XP which only came with XP stuff.

[JUSXTREME96]

I think the old color scheme would've worked only in XP if you also used the desk.cpl from Windows 2000 and older.

[JUSXTREME96]

You can upgrade from ME to 2000 as 2000 labels ME as 95 or 98.

[1Varrok1]

Does DoomII work on clean non-upgraded version of Windows 7? I mean... does upgrading through every version increase compatibility with older programs?

[archy9752]

@1Varrok1 It worked for him because he's using a 32 bit version of windows. If your OS is 16 bit, you can use programs with 8-16 bits., if your OS is 32 bit, you can use programs with 16-32 bits, and if your OS is 64 bit, you can use programs that are 32-64 bits. the original DoomII is 16 bit and for DOS. You can still get it working on a 64 bit version of Windows with DOSBox, a 16 bit DOS emulator, or use a source port such as Doom95, zDoom, PrBoom, ect. If you need help, let me know.

[jipje44]

are you dutch?

[jihan031]

Good job

[Maverynthia]

I would have installed specific 95 programs and even XP programs that wrote to the resgistry to see if those were kept.

[winfr34k]

Sounds like the test of WinHistory, just a little modified.

[klingoncowboy4]

What I want to know is how did it handle the file systems. Dos 5 would be Fat16 and Vista/7 prefers NTFS 6...

[AngelosDracul]

@klingoncowboy4 The installers would have automatically upgraded as needed. I am sure conversion options were presented, and accepted.

[klingoncowboy4]

@AngelosDracul yes I know both win2k and winxp give you the option to convert from fat32 to ntfs5 during upgrade, presumably the winvista ugrade converts to NTFS6. You cannot directly upgrade from Windows Xp to 7.

[AngelosDracul]

@klingoncowboy4 I know that you cannot upgrade directly from XP to 7...

[mickyd110011]

@littenburg yes, but you need to explore the hdd, because it wont be in games explorer by default.

[mickyd110011]

do mac os. that would be awesome!

[halfdemonself]

Other than the disgusting sounds this guy made occasionally (A slightly slurpy, wet sound), this was a pretty good video, and was actually informative. Also... hahahaha twatface. Ahem.

[perlharb]

Great!

[chowbe0316]

hi

[dpotocic]

Where is Windows ME? ah, yes, that is not actually OS :)

[thebloxxeronroblox]

@dpotocic No because you can't upgrade from Windows 2000 to Windows ME

[MisterTibTib]

fucking windows 98

[codefaker]

Some one should do this with Debian.

[gerokis]

@codefaker

or Ubuntu. Nice idea indeed.

[koki4o]

@RockAroundTehClock Didn't you see the note? "Windows ME cannot be upgraded to 2000 so it was skipped."

[Casper1563]

@koki4o yes! YOU CAN upgrade Windows 98 to Windows me or 2000 and both upgrade to windows XP

[LaurelVentura]

3.1 was my bitch.

[drmhere]

Millennium? 

[stonefoxx100]

Amazing how technology has become....

[littenburg]

Did pinball from XP port over to vista and 7?

[stevegeoff]

Thanks for doing this. It was a very enjoyable video.

[Drag0nTrainer]

I only have a question (btw, amazing video). What it was the size of the hard disk?

Because MS-DOS FAT16 can only hold partitions up to 2GB but Windows 7 needs around 15GB to be installed. When did you enlarge the partition or turned it into fat32?

I'm really curious, because I'm tempted to repeat this experiment with an actual machine (not just a VM).

[MrDragonknight94]

MS-DOS ftw!!!

[classicalgarse]

@MrDragonknight94 Thumbs down for asking for thumbs up.

[gerokis]

@classicalgarse

because of that would

lo GIVE ME THUMBS DOWN would give me thumbs up?

[903someone]

The Best Microsoft Windows Operating Systems:

1. Windows XP

2. Windows 7

3. Windows 2000

4. Windows 3.11 for workgroups

Thumbs up if you agree!

[weeweeeewee]

"Every version of windows" nope - there are also Server editions. Thing is if you upgraded to NT Server you probably couldn't install any of the workstation OS's afterwards.

[9rockky]

how about a mac?

[sk8rdood67]

NT killed the color schemes

NT killed the best thing about Windows

lol

[moptim]

@sk8rdood67 I think NT was the prelude and it was XP that scrapped it all

[themine1122]

no, the latest and greatest is win8

[caveofretro]

vee-sta

[mspeter97]

reversi?

on windows 7?

wowow..

wait...those files aren't replaced because other version didn't have it right?

but windows 3.0 had an updated version of reversi so whi reversi looks like the win 101 on win 7?

[FullerxspectruM]

@mspeter97 That WAS win 101 reversi, because he had win 101 first.

[williewillus1220]

2000 was based on the Windows NT Kernel used nowadays, and was on a completely separate development branch than the ME/9x family, which were based on DOS. NT was intended for enterprise, and ME for end users. The two never met until Windows XP

[jevansturner]

Many Microsoft games specifically designed for Windows 95, like "3D Movie Maker" do not work with XP or anything newer :(

[pelletencate]

184 people are having troubles adapting to current standards, keep stuck in old buggy habits or are not being backwards compatible.

[jdcresswell]

Could have upgraded to Windows NT 4.0 from Windows 98SE? (If that is possible?) then upgraded to Windows 2000 from NT 4.0.

[rossjames120]

funny movie

[mfcallaha]

you need to change the battery in your smoke detector @7:35

[debostahn]

I wish you'd also installed Maniac Mansion :(

(... or Zak McKracken :D)

[jeffjoraj]

man, xp had to go &f*ck it all up

[bloxxerify]

cos twat means pregnant goldfish lol

[ejonconrad]

Hey, they left out Windows ME! (probably because it would have destroyed everything and prevented the rest of the demonstration). GAWD, that was an awful operating system!! I remember my wife would call me just about every day with problems. She somehow never learned that although the problems were always different, the answer was always the same: reboot. This video is actually a damn good tribute to Steve Jobs.

[jevansturner]

@ejonconrad

2000 came out before ME, but ME was based on 9x...so there was no upgrade path for 2k --> ME.

[xeusnightslash]

i don't think this process would work on a real computer

[wowFaelein]

My A+ Certification teacher told me about this video, although I already knew about it, I feel ahead in my class. :3

[valttu94]

I had a 3.1 I miss it but i'm gonna find a ms-dos floppy and try to install it again :P

[drygnfyre]

I'm sure it's been mentioned, but one of the neat things about Windows is that up until XP SP2, it was possible to use the File Manager and Program Manager as defaults by simply changing a registry setting. Talk about legacy support... You could completely ignore Windows Explorer in Windows 9x and the early NT releases!

[SuperMario32game]

How do you install the MSCDEX Drivers?

[tylerbr]

man, where do u find the first windows version to download? in a Museum?

[aseglkj]

twatface, nice. I always use Bill Gaytes.

[integral123]

This is like being a winner and a looser at the same time... Much like employee of the month.

[MusicaRicercata]

@integral123 bye

[karlking1995]

Hahaha registered to TwatFace, you sir just made my day XD

[wildstoo]

VEESTA

[spongah]

good times!

[andrea22borman]

Well,when I tried to install Windows 2000 with virtual box it would not let me do it. But also I don't know how to use virtual box. I have in the past installed Linux alongside Windows by mounting the ISO file on virtual clone drive. But I never saw any ISO files for Windows XP or Windows 2000. Except for the service packs. But they were not the operating systems,just service packs. Which don't work on Windows 7. Andrea Borman.

[andrea22borman]

The problem with virtual box is that you have to have a CD of the original Windows 2000 operating system. Which of course I don't have,as I only got my first computer,Windows 7, last year. So I cannot run these versions of Windows in virtual machine. But I also have a Windows XP Netbook bought this year. So I have got the REAL Windows XP,not virtual machine. Andrea Borman.

[mdr23]

Absolutely amazing. And as you say, it really is a credit to the Microsoft folks that this is all possible.

[112Aug]

Good Stuff. Though can Windows 1.0 work on Windows XP based PC in Virtual Machine 2007?

[mspeter97]

funny..but I want to know how many hours has passed!

[BadgerBroadcasting]

6:37 twatface

[JustSayNo420]

Very informative, thanks twatface.

[BLUamnEsiac]

How were you able to keep the Windows Classic theme in Windows 7? I thought it was officially dropped in that iteration.

[arhsmacdude]

anyone know how I can find a copy of windows 95?

[JuryDutySummons]

@arhsmacdude Ebay and/or bittorrent.

[239Nicks]

so this is OS inside OS inside OS inside OS....etc

fucking OS limbo

[DanMatrix2]

can you believe it? Reversi!

[baycrum267]

Is Windows Vista today's equivalent of ME?

[baycrum267]

@baycrum267 Meaning they were both suckish

[JamesManes]

@baycrum267 Vista was not as bad as ME.. really.

[PhaedrusNYC]

That could have been my computer in the early 90s- I, too, had Monkey Island and Doom installed on my computer, too.

[b0bby97]

soooo coool

[1Soraules]

@Heopen Don't get a copy. Get Windows 7.

[akeelahhh]

lol twat face

[drykitufk]

Mostly Mac OSUX nerds actually.

[fragsman]

177 Linsux nerds doesn't like the video.

[ChefWil191]

Thinking different begins eventually with Windows Default colors. Keep the tech happy, please! Vista's 2 hr load time was noted, so how long to go to Windows 7 ?

[scienceman83]

In my experience the ms-dos support have been more or less nonexistant after win 95-98. If your applications was still working it was probably because of the lingering ms-dos system files.

Did you try upgrading the filesystem to NTFS at some point? I think there were some utility there allowing you to change it with the system intact when NTFS was getting more popular and imo i think the change to a journalling filesystem is what made all the difference.

[dan991199]

very cool

[fatbellyification]

Pretty interesting video, I would have been super impressed if you'd managed to squeeze the abortion that was Windows ME in there :P

[PhantomCosmonaut]

when it gets to XP you get that feeling similar to the one you get after taking a huge dump.

[edgsv]

Why?

[didogazeto]

press 3 and then press 9 (while play8ing the vid)

[ModernGeek]

Did the DOS applications run in Vista / Windows 7? I think that the XP theme was the most horrible of them all. I really hated how you had a choice of either "Blue" or "Silver". When I first installed Windows XP, I thought it was the coolest and greatest thing ever, only to go back to Windows 2000, briefly to XP (in "classic" mode), and then on to migrate to the Macintosh, as I felt Mac OS X was beyond fully matured at that point.

[slyslayer223]

Because the color scheme is the most important part

[Jenoki]

twatface

[bloxxerify]

@Jenoki HA HA HA HA HA HA who has the face of a pregnant goldfish (preggers)

[WinCamXP]

What the heck was that Vista thing at the beginning? I've NEVER seen that...

[MrThePwnisher]

4:06 Screwing with registrations since the beginning.

[Heopen]

Never heard of Windows Veesta. Where can i get a copy?

[krjawfin]

Obviously no need to comment on WinME as that's been done to death. Perhaps you could do a history of MS Office, all done in Win7 - we could observe the rise and fall of clippy!

[Faizan1631]

do you know that you have to install 2000 then ME

[sarahts21]

Absolutely fascinating.

[BeconTorpedo]

FPS killed adventure games

[JuniorAdventurer]

I wonder what this will look like after Windows 8.

[JaeRob2009]

I love this video .. ive always wanted to do this and now i see it in action

[homergfunk]

microsoft bob and ME were awesome... lol.

[906532335]

神奇……

[blazirh]

@906532335 Totally agree with you

[Faizan1631]

me too bartere124 and windows 7 is not al little less crapier than windows vista too lnow it isn't use it for at least a year and find out

Windows 8 is coming some where near sptember 2012

[bubbleheadft]

@Faizan1631 Care to try that in English?

[barterer124]

windows "vista" took 2 hours because its crap

windows 7 is a little less crappier.

windows xp is best, its the first SUCESSFUL os.

[barterer124]

thumbs up if this hypnotized you to say everything you heard after the video/caused you to watch it again

I DID BOTH

[t3hPoundcake]

I remember rocking 95 like a boss with Doom, first gaming experience.

[didogazeto]

200-boring,stable

ME-cool-looking,more multimedia,UNSTABLE

[TheKenji0909]

1:00 is good

9:49 is bad

[TheKenji0909]

1:01

good



[anonymousQ45]

i dont know much about the software of computers. is xp better than 7? i have a netbook and i want 360/ps3 quality games on it, specifically gta 4. i know ill have to buy some extra stuff to get it to run so would it be better to get a better computer or upgrade? what should i upgrade?

[GTAGAMECounterShot]

@anonymousQ45 Do you got a Netbook with XP? Forgett it. the cheap Netbooks can't the new games. But the Gamer Netbooks can

[anonymousQ45]

@GTAGAMECounterShot i have windows 7 starter

[ccm4181]

Now do it with Mac

[kbbbb7]

Cardfile....best APP EVER!!

[Todd82TA]

Man... I miss the days of Windows 3.1 with 386 Enhanced Mode... Castle of the Winds was awesome!!!

[bubbleheadft]

He should totally do Microsoft Word.

[theotherguy245689]

watching this on an iMac lol

[MasterOfWin7]

We need the same video but for the Mac OS!

[DJblastyfone]

@MasterOfWin7 I have an old clamshell iBook and am seriously considering doing this with OSX . I'll post it as a reply to this video if I do.

[MasterOfWin7]

@DJblastyfone You should do it!

[DJblastyfone]

@MasterOfWin7 I've already burned off half the discs I'll need, and I've found a 2.5" firewire enclosure so I can connect the iBook's drive to my intel mac and install 10.5, 10.6, and 10.7 on it too (iBook only runs up to 10.4). Stay tuned!

[DSNesmith]

I could listen to this guy's accent for hours. Also, it's kind of neat how it kept the program groups.

[legesleg]

@isthisnickvalid maybe yes.

but clever peasant can fix it :)

[MultiWebCoder]

Great video :D

[DinoDude65]

Didn't ME come before 2000? ME was like an update of 98, but it was horrendous. 2000 was the first good Windows operating system; it takes up very little RAM and most PC games can still run on it.

[GTAGAMECounterShot]

@DinoDude65 Windows 2000 was released in 1999, and ME in 2000

[DinoDude65]

@GTAGAMECounterShot

Oh, well. 2000 is still a very good operating system. ME is awful.

[FuchsTV]

Very good Job ;)

[DavidMcMahon1]

I'd love a Win7 compatible PC back in the Win 1.0 days! I wonder if any (Mainframes etc) exist??