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TechTom's Hardwareabout 1 hour ago
Windows 95 guessed installers by filenameWindows 95 identified setup programs by checking executable filenames against a six-term list: setup, install, inst, imposta, ayarla, and felrak. If no match, it checked the path for "Setup." A separate live check ran after multimedia driver INF installs. The heuristic gated a recovery mechanism that restored system files overwritten by installers. Microsoft dropped this approach in Windows 2000 with Windows File Protection.
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