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I'm not 100% sure if I understand you correctly, but I think you're asking about the title? As far as I can tell, the title is called that way because there was

I'm not 100% sure if I understand you correctly, but I think you're asking about the title? As far as I can tell, the title is called that way because there was an icon literally called "Switch to Chicago"[1] in the Windows 3.x "emulation" feature of a Windows Chicago (95 beta) build. The OP is a follow-up that ports the feature to a newer build of Windows 95, repeating part of the title. [1] https://blog.krnl386.com/index.php?post/2017/11/19/Switch-to-Chicago https://blog.krnl386.com/index.php?post/2017/11/19/Switch-to...

Stratoscope 9y ago
Thank you. The article is exactly as you say, and it certainly isn't advocating that anyone should run Windows 95 on their computer today. It's much more interesting than that. I don't know if I would call it a Windows 3.1 emulation, it was actually running a standard build of Windows 3.1 in a Chicago/Win95 window by using some special drivers. Interestingly, the "port" consisted mostly of removing a version test in WIN31.EXE that checked that it was running under Windows 4.0. As described in the Raymond Chen post the article links to, Chicago originally reported itself as Windows 4.0 in the GetVersion() API, but this was rolled back to 3.95 before the Win95 release because many apps had bad version checks. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040213-00/?p=40633 https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040213-00/?p=...