Windows 95 was released in 1995, hence the name.
Windows 95 is 17 years old and windows 98 is 14 years old. this answer will get updated every couple of years.
The most likely reason is that your laptop does not meet the system requirements for Windows XP.
7.0 was with Windows 95, and Windows 95A 7.1 is Windows 95B
Windows 95 to Windows 98, and then to Windows XP
Windows 95 was released worldwide.
No golf game was "standard" on Windows 95. Microsoft Golf was released in 1995, but it was not included as part of Windows 95.
Windows 95 was released in 1995, August 24th.
Windows 95 was released in August of 1995. It was a giant innovation compared to the previous Windows OS, Windows 3.1 and 3.11.
The Windows Update service is/was available to Windows 95, but there was no specific utility for it; you would have to manually go to the website.
Windows "9x"
Windows 98, Windows ME, and Windows 2000 all support upgrading directly from Windows 95. Your system must meet the requirements in order to upgrade, however.
DOS is a older Windows OS (behind Windows 95). Command Prompt is in all Windows OS (Windows 95 to Windows 7) DOS only supports FAT file systems DOS can't CD to files with spaces in the address line DOS only supports OLD PC systems (anything that can run Windows 95 is to "new") That is all that I know, as I code in C++