When I was around 5, I got an old box with Windows 95 on it.
(I always get the handmedown computers)
I thought this was great, only that I didn't know how to read.
One day, I started messing around in control panel and
C:\(keep in mind no one else uses this computer), and somehow
I got it to display in CGA graphics one one account, run
extremely fast on the other, and crash on the last.
This is only a quarter of what I did, I can't remember anything else
I got it to do. Does anyone have a guess on how I got all of this to happen?

Did you use the Windows 3.1 CGA Driver?

You think THAT's something...

When I was five, my Windows 95 computer was playing up. My brother told me it needed formatting. I thought 'I can do that!'. I went into C:\Windows, and decided to 'help' by formatting for my brother. I put all of C:\Windows into the recycle bin, then wondered why the whole screen went white!

When I was five, Windows 95 was not even released. Back in 1992, I used to screw up the Windows 3.1 install on my machine (which was slow as hell) again and again by doing all kinds of weird stuff, mostly because I didn't really know how to use that ever-crashing "OS" properly.

I rely can't reply to that with a definite answer, as
I didn't know how to read.[/quote]

I remember causing blue screens all the time in windows 95. I used to press a bunch of buttons at once on the keyboard and go into places I wasnt supposed to be. I also screwed around in the control panel alot.

Ah good times.

When i was 5 (or maybe 6) that was 1st time i've finished all episodes of Doom. That's one of realy few things i remember when i was young

When I was around 5-7, I got my first computer. I remember I had access to the free netzero dialup, and had 10 hours of access per month.

I remember fooling around on DOS 4.1, and GWBASIC at the age of 7. I grew up on DOS, and only started using Windows in 1994. I then proceded to reformat the machine, and did not have the reinstall diskettes for Windows, so I ended up with using DOS for another 2.5 years until we got a computer in the house. We finally got a Windows 95-based Sony VAIO (They had just come out), which I ended up installing 98, and 98SE before the motherboard died. I then ordered parts to rebuild the system, but by that time, I was about 13 years old.

I'm 21 now, and value the fact that I had to deal with DOS for so many years - I probably wouldn't have ended up working on computers for a living if I had, say, a Mac or a Windows-based machine during those young years of my life.

I remember screwing up the config.sys file numerous times, having to restore from a boot disk (which I made several copies of). I also worked on an old Panasonic Sr. Partner system, which can be found here: http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=498&st=1

When i as 5 I never used Windows, we had one computer running it but I was never allowed on it.
At 3 however we got a mac, and when it was running I got on and the first thing I did was to proceed to throw everything in the trash. I nearly threw away the hardrive but my parents stopped me before that. It probably wouldn't have worked anyway since the computer needed to have empty trashed clicked first

You think that was impressive!
I finished Myst when I was 4, and got half way through Riven.

no, that was with cheats and with help of my grandfather

Some fun,

I take it, Windows loaded from the RAM drive?

Yes.....Look at the font.

I guess that there was no ClearType huh? Lol...