Windows 3.11 Download Zip
Windows 3.11 in DOSBox Just a method of running Windows 3.11 in DOSBox Stable release 0.74-2, for personal use. The idea was inspired initially by my desire to re-visit some After Dark screen savers, and a recent discussion over at r/dosgaming. Windows 3.11 comes with standard super VGA drivers up to a resolution of 1024x768, but it does not work on VirualBox. It will result in the 'Blue Screen of Death' and Windows 3.11 has to be reinstalled again (Windows 3.11 doesn't have safe mode to recover it).
Utilities, Extensions, Patches and Fixes, Multimedia Applications
| CAL3101P.ZIP, 613K: Calmira 3.101 German. Calmira is a Win95 style GUI including Start Menu, Taskbar, Explorer, and anything else a Win95 user might miss in Windows 3.1.... Calmira can be configured individually and you may even become addicted to it ;) And now for the best: Calmira is Open Source! CALSRC.ZIP, 854K: The Calmira Sources (in Delphi). More information and English version at www.calmira.net. Those who prefer to have a Windows 3.1x which looks like OS/2, should try the Workplace Shell for Windows 1.51, 634K. | |
| Winplay 3, 806K: The best and most stable MP3 player for Win 3.1x I ever came across! Sound options can be changed depending on the hardware performance. The minimum should be a 486DX-33. With a slower machine you won't have much fun... | |
| XING_31.ZIP, 1.29M: MPEG Video and VCD Player for Windows 3.1x. Absolutely stable and well performing, even though my machine is much slower than recommended. Important notice: Won't work with Win95 or above! | |
| Microsoft Office 97 Viewers for Win 3.1x PPVIEW16.EXE, 1.78M: Power Point Viewer, for presentations and slide shows. WDVW9716.EXE, 2.21M: Microsoft Word 97/2000 Viewer. |
Mpegplay V.161, 627K: Small MPEG Player by Michael Simmons, a good alternative for those who don't like the resource eating XING. Important: the program is Shareware and requires WIN32s.
MPEG2 1.1b, 257K: MPEG2 Player, Encoder and Decoder for 32-Bit Windows, including Sources. Requires WIN32s.
Media Player 5.2 beta, 5.5M: To my knowledge the latest version of the 16bit version of the Microsoft Media Player. Can handle e.g. streaming audio/video files.
Netshow Player 2.0, 2.5M: Player for streaming files in ASF format.
RP16_401.EXE, 1.09M: RealPlayer 4.01 for Windows 3.1x. Unfortunately I wasn't able to test it, because it doesn't work with my VGA graphics driver (Diamond Speedstar, ET4000).
R1650W3X.EXE, 1.3M: Real Player 16bit 5.0. To my knowledge the latest 16bit version. Also untested for the above reason.
Video for Windows 1.1, 1.39 M: You'll need Video for Windows to play AVI movies.
Intel Indeo Video Codecs: Video-Codecs 3.2 and 4.1 for Windows 3.1x including installation guide in German.
Quicktime 2.12, 1.81 M: The latest Quicktime version that will work with 3.1x. The archive additionally contains the Quicktime Internet-Plugin v. 1.1.
WinG 1.0, 840K: WinG version 1.0 provides fast DIB-to-screen blts (Bit Block Transfers) under Windows 3.1, Windows for Workgroups 3.11, Windows 95, and Windows NT version 3.5.
Prosound, 860K: Prosound Midi Sequencer for Windows 3.1x.
WIN32s 1.30.172, 2.41M: The Win32s Extensions for Windows 3.1x. Some programs need this 32bit extension, but it enables you to run some Win9x programs, too.
International Language Packages for Win32s:
Dansk, 620K
Deutsch, 620K
Espanol, 620K
Suomen, 620K
Francais, 620K
Italiano, 620K
Nederlands, 620K
Norsk, 620K
Svenska, 620K
These archives contain foreign language versions of some of the Win32s files. After the installation of the complete package (see above), just replace the appropiate files with your language version.
Internet Explorer 5.0 16bit: The complete installation package for Windows 3.1x and NT 3.51. (German).
128bit encryption, 157K: Update for Internet Explorer 5.0 16bit (English).
Java SDK, 2.79M: Java Software Development Kit for Windows 3.11 (Win32s required).
TCP/IP-32 for WfWG 3.11, 674 K: TCP/IP network protocol stack including all tools and utilities (will only work with Windows for Workgroups 3.11).
Xitami Webserver, 724 K: Http and Ftp Server for Windows for Workgroups 3.11.
IrfanView 2.05, 230 K: A fast and small image viewing and processing tool, originally written for Win95/NT. This older version still runs on Windows 3.1x with Win32s, though.
Acrobat Reader 3.01, 3.85 M: The newest available 16-Bit version.
Euro-Update, 757K: The Euro symbol for Windows 3.1x.
OSR2 Fix, 30 K: You'll need this fix if you want to install Windows 3.1x under MS-DOS 7.1 (Windows 95 OSR2 resp. Windows 98).
Winclock, 20K: Shows date and time in the title bar of the active window. Also offers some more advanced display options.
Screensaver, 4K: Starts the active screensaver immediately when double-clicked.
WinExit, 3K: Shuts down Windows immediately (i.e. without showing a dialogue box) when double-clicked.
StartupScreen, 21K: Easily change the Windows startup logo.
Total Commander: The Total Commander (formerly Windows Commander) comes in a 16bit and a 32bit version and is apparently the most comprehensive file manager for Windows 3.1x (Shareware).
AppleWin 1.10, Apple //e Emulator for Windows, and Tools.
Inspiration 5.0 for Windows 3.1x
A visual learning tool that inspires students to develop and organize their ideas. Includes permission to distribute for free.
NCSA/Windows httpd 16-bit HTTP Server for Win3.1x
NCSA httpd V1.3Pre for Windows 16bit 12-Jun-94
NCSA httpd X1.1a2 for Windows 16bit 08-Apr-94
Windows httpd V1.4c for Windows 16bit (09-Jun-95)
Microsoft Software Library: This is a part of The Microsoft Software Library, containing all files from 1991 till 1994, as well as some additional files for Windows 3.1x and NT 3.x from later issues.
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Virtualization
VPC7 - VPC - Virtual Server - Hyper-V - VMWare - VirtualBox -Parallel's 4 - VPC-Mac - Other/Misc.
Windows Virtual PC(WVPC or WinVPC) includes Windows XP Mode (XPM)
Check your BIOS before you start the installation!
VPC7 requires hardware virtualization support to run, Microsoft offers tools to check your system before you begin the installation: Windows Virtual PC: Configure BIOS
Installing unsupported OSes in Windows Virtual PC
Windows 98
Installation is similar once you get started and you can use my VPC2007 TechRef for the actual OS installation. See this PDF for VPC7 Win98 installation startup.
VPC7 is missing a virtual floppy drive, to install Windows 98, you'll need a way to boot your VM, partition and format the VHD before you can install Win98. I've made an ISO of my Win98 boot floppy. Download here: win98seboot.iso in ZIP format.
Windows NT
Installation is simpler than Win98 above, assuming you have a bootable Windows NT 4 CD. Installation PDF
ISO for NTSP6 and IE6 for NT* Rename from .zip to .iso. The file is not zipped, ISO extensions are blocked by my hosting provider. This ISO may be removed at any time at the request of Microsoft.
Virtual PC (legacy)What works and doesn't work in VPC 2004( and generally in VPC 2007)
Virtual PC 2007 Tech Ref v0.5 (PDF)* Includes Windows 98/NT/2K/XP installation instructions, CentOS install and other tips.
*Please right-click and select 'Save As' to save a copy locally.
Connectix
Windows 3.11 Download Zip Free
Windows 3.11 Zip Download
Plan on using Windows 95 with VPC 2007? Make sure you get or keep a copy of the VPC2004 Additions. No Windows 95 VM Additions are included with VPC 2007. See more details here: Why won't the Virtual PC 2007 Virtual Machine Additions load on Windows 95- -VPC Guy Ben Armstrong, VPC Program Manager, explains in his blog.
Extracting files from the Virtual PC installer-How to get the Win95 VMA if you've already uninstalled VPC2004
VPC2004SP1 Additions Download--If you can't get them anywhere else, here's a ZIP. This is a 12MB file, please don't download it more than once.
VPC 2007 SP1 Additions Download--if you can't get them from MS, here's a ZIP, 21.6MB download.
Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 Additions Download--if you can't get them from MS, here is a ZIP, 23MB download.
Windows 98 ready VMC and VFD: Partitioned and formatted, includes a Win98 EBD. Just add your Win98 ISO/CD-ROM, License key and go. (If you have VPC-Mac, use the one in the Mac section)
Instructions
Windows 98 Emergency Boot Disk (Win98EBD (ZIPped) - just the VFD
VPC-Win 5.2 Tech Ref v1.3(ZIPped PDF) Its full of relevant info for VPC, while I wrote it for 5.2, a huge amount of it is directly, or almost directly usable with VPC2004. Please note that some modification necessary to use guides for VPC2004, for example, VPC2004 does not create pre-formatted disk images so you must pre-format a Win9x/DOS VHD before you can install the OS.
Compare my Differencing Disk diagram (p18 in the TechRef) to the one in the Virtual Server Admin's guide (under Using Diff. Disks). (My original Word doc of this was created Dec 10, 2002 ;-) )
Emulated Intel 21140a Drivers (Intel 21143) --DOS Drivers are here! *Link to Intel's Website*
( DOS drivers NDIS2 Unified 21xxx driver v3.0 )
Windows 3.11 S3 Video Drivers referenced in the Tech Ref(w3117004.zip)
Linux Additions for Virtual Server Now Available for download - these have been reported to work under Virtual PC for Windows as well.
Virtual Server 2005 R2SP1 Enterprise Edition
Linux Additions for Virtual Server Now Available for download
Sample Scripts from previous releases of Virtual Server
HowTo: Enable VMRC/Disable 15 Minute Idle Disconnect ( PDF - text only - with screenshots )
Hyper-V
Windows 2008 with Hyper-V now available.
System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) now available
VMWare
VM Ware Workstation- VPC's main competitor, the perfect choice if your host OS is Linux or BSD based, 7.1 now available. I like it, especially when using Linux VMs.
VM Ware Server - Free full version 2.0 now available!
VM Ware Fusion - Intel Mac VM offering
VirtualBox
VirtualBox 4.0 now available for download. Lots of new features, x64 VM support, plus it's free!
Parallel's has finally released an update to the Workstation 2.2, now it's Desktop 4.0. Super-easy Linux VM Tools installs
VPC-Mac
MS has ended VPC-Mac's life...so long and thanks for the memories!
IMPORTANT!! VPC for Mac does not work on Intel Macs
Windows 98 Ready VM for VPC7, similar to the one for VPC200x above. You need a Windows 98 CD and license to finish the install (The VM is configured to boot to C:, and has CD-ROM drivers already loaded for a pain-free Windows 98 install) This won't work with the Win98 included with older versions of VPC.
Garmin and VPC Configuration Info-please don't email me or the author of this for tech support, as you won't receive it from either of us, this is provided as a reference ONLY.
VPC4 to VPC6 Info(Word DOC) Migrating from VPC 4 to VPC 6.
Windows 98 Emergency Boot Disk (Win98EBD) as referenced in the VPC6 PDF(Win98EBD.zip)
Virtual PC 5.0.4 Updater - (.sit format) this requires an earlier version of VPC5 installed.
Virtual PC 4.0.2 Updater - (.sit format) this updater requires an earlier version of VPC4 to be installed.
Using Windows from VPC6 with VPC7 (PDF)
VPC 200x Precompactor.exe to zero VHD before compacting (ZIP) --Use instead of Eraser, extract the zip file and run in Windows after you defragment and before you compact.
Other/Misc..
Parallels Desktop for Intel Macs
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