Therefore, many people will decide to install a Windows 3.1 VM. If you want to install Windows 3.1 on a physical PC, you need to use a floppy disk. Windows 3.2 (1993): It is a Windows version specially developed by Microsoft for the Chinese mainland market, and only provides a simplified Chinese version.Windows 3.11 (1993): This version does not add too many functional improvements, mainly including bug fixes for Windows 3.1.Windows 3.1 (1992): It removed some old features to improve the system stability, added the support for TrueType fonts, and could access the max memory up to 256MB in reality, which broke the max memory limit (16MB) of Windows 3.0.Windows 3.0 (1990): Its main features include: supporting 256-color SVGA mode for the first time, introducing Recorder to record macros or sequences of key presses and mouse movements for the first time, and allowing Windows applications to use more memory more easily than DOS applications.On This Page :įrom 1990 to 1994, Microsoft released Windows 3.x series of OS based on MS-DOS. This post from MiniTool Partition Wizard will show you all. If you still have the original media and a floppy disk drive (I have an old USB one for just this sort of occasion) then you can create your own disk images if you have some spare time.Īlso, this procedure should work with the free virtualisation software, VirtualBox as well as Vmware Fusion.Do you want to try Windows 3.1 on your PC? You may need to know how to download the Windows 3.1 ISO for free and install it on your PC. I sourced my copies of the media from The Legacy PC Project. I should note that although I downloaded disk images for DOS and Windows, I still have my original floppy disk installation media so I didn’t feel too bad about downloading software that was released in 1993 and has long-since been out of mainstream use. And I figured that it would pose the most challenges to install.Īs I’d recently installed Parallels Desktop 14, I decided to use that for my DOS/Windows machine. I decided on the combination of DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.11 as that was the last mainstream generation of software that relied on a command line operating system. In my recent review of Parallels Desktop 14, I mentioned that I set up a virtual machine to run MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.11.
Sitting in front of our modern PCs, it’s hard to imagine a time when things weren’t as smooth, easy and inutile as they are today.
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