Raymond Chen has an article on this as well[1], the TL;DR is that you have 3 different upgrade paths (i.e. the text mode portions for a clean install, the Win16

Raymond Chen has an article on this as well[1], the TL;DR is that you have 3 different upgrade paths (i.e. the text mode portions for a clean install, the Win16 portion for a 3.1 -> 95 upgrade, or the Win32 portion for a 95 -> 95 upgrade) [1]: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20241112-00/?p=110507 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20241112-00/?p=11...