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Windows 95 detected installers by looking for magic words and hoping for the best
Windows 95 identified installer programs by checking their names against a list of 'magic words' like 'setup', 'install', and 'inst'. If a match was found, the OS performed cleanup checks for modified system files. This approach was due to limitations in detection methods during the 1990s.
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