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First post, by Muz

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What is the best USB Support software for Windows 95?

Reply 2 of 18, by jesolo

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USB support in Windows 95 is limited and was only supported via the USB supplement that was provided with OSR 2.1 and later (you have to run it separately).
However, in most cases, you were still required to install manufacturer supplied drivers for certain USB devices (like flash drives or external hard drives). I believe that the Sandisk & Cruzer drivers are the most popular ones.
Windows 98 has better USB support and, via a third party USB Stack driver, also has much better support for USB devices like USB flash drives or external hard drives (I normally use the USB Stack driver that is supplied with the latest version of the Unofficial Windows 98SE Service Pack 3.x).

Reply 3 of 18, by Deksor

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There is an unofficial improved USB driver for Windows 95 though. This is the "lonecrusader" available here http://www.win3x.org/win3board/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1638

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Reply 10 of 18, by britain4

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I had a ton of trouble the other day trying to get this to work. I gave up in the end and ended up using 98lite - you get the speed/appearance of 95 with the stability and driver support of 98.

The 98 NUSB mod does work with it but you need to extract the exe first, replace the explorer.exe with the 95 one and then run the setup from the extracted folder.

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Reply 12 of 18, by kolmio

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Muz wrote on 2018-07-13, 19:00:

I have tried the USB that came inside the disc, now it works.

Do you have onboard USB controller or use an adapter card?

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Reply 13 of 18, by appiah4

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Do a search on the forum and you'll find this: Windows 95 and USB flash drives

But as Deksor pointed above this works flawlessly in my Win95 systems: http://lonecrusader.x10host.com/xusbsupp.html

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Reply 16 of 18, by kolmio

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Doornkaat wrote on 2022-01-19, 07:34:

Guys, this thread was made by Muz and in 2018.
I don't think there is much point replying anymore.

He visits the forum daily still

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Reply 17 of 18, by Doornkaat

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kolmio wrote on 2022-01-19, 08:51:
Doornkaat wrote on 2022-01-19, 07:34:

Guys, this thread was made by Muz and in 2018.
I don't think there is much point replying anymore.

He visits the forum daily still

Yes. Read some of his contributions.
I may of course be wrong in my assessment so if your conclusions from his posts are different than mine feel free to keep trying to support him.

Reply 18 of 18, by Babasha

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You can install Win95 OSR2.5 with Microsoft USBSUPP1 + USBSUPP2 packages and some third-party drivers to have USB-storage or optical drives support.
Unfortunately there NO USB-HID (keyboard and mice) support until Win98/NT.

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