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I bought a Kingston USB Flash drive 128 Mb. It says it doens't suppoer Windows 95, but I think there'll be a way to make it work. I haven't yet tried to install the Win 98SE driver. Is there a universal driver for memory sticks? I'd be glad to have it. Belkin memory card reader works perfectly well on this computer.

Windows 95 does not have full USB support and you would need a specific driver written for whatever version of W95 you have. A W98SE driver is not an option. A generic driver does not exist period.

Windows 95B Has USB Support, Do you know what 95 You have? As you know not all USB devices are supported on windows 95 as it now classed as outdated. If you do have the correct windows then as mentiond before a driver written for windows 95 is needed. Contact the manufacture to see what they have to suggest.
Hope This Helps
Martyn.S
People Like Playing With Settings! Thats when it goes all wrong! Before you make any changed set a SYSTEM RESTORE point. You might regret it otherwise :-

My suggestion is upgrade your operating system. I just upgraded a Dell Dimension PII 400 MHz system to XP Pro, and it runs better than ever; it NEVER hangs or freezes. I admit I went from 128 MB RAM to 384 MB RAM, but for a $40 investment it was well worth it. Of course you also have to consider the cost of the OS if applicable.
Windows 98 Upgrades are really cheap. I've seen Win 98SE full for $40 including shipping on eBay, Windows XP Pro Upgrade for $90, Windows XP Pro Full for $120, etc.
Check it out on eBay.
http://computers.listings.ebay.com/Operating-Systems_Windows_W0QQfromZR4QQfsooZ1QQfsopZ1QQsacatZ41882QQsocmdZListingItemList
Good luck.
I - Sandor J
Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the wise man.
- William Penn (1614 - 1718)

One word, Sandor: updating my system is NOT an option. This computer has worked fine for 7 years, and only one virus has ever infected this computer though it has been used to browse the Net all those years. I don't like people who's only help is to offer an upgrade to Win 98. I need an answer to this question, I'm not asking for a new computer. If I was, I wouldn't bother asking you at all. I don't mean to be offensive, this is just what I am. And second, this isn't my computer, it's my mom's. She's not going to buy another one.
The Windows version this computer has is Windows 95 C, and when we bought it it came with 2 USB ports and all the Universal Bus controllers etc. were already installed. We had no use for USB then, I didn't even know what it was! Now, when there's USB devices available we can't use it. This bugs me a lot. On Kingston webpages there was only a strict answer: Windows 95 not supported. So it said in the Belkin box too, but when I installed the reader and searched through it's readme-file, there was actually mentioned, that it works with Windows 95 B and C too. And it did.
The Kingston driver for 98SE didn't start installing at all, it only said I don't have 98. Is there a way to override this? I have a 98SE machine too, can I somehow transfer the installed files from it to this computer?

Found by simply Yahoo!'ing' for USB Windows 95:
98% of the population is asleep. The other 2% are staring around in complete amazement, abject terror, or both.

Lightforce,
No offense taken. It would appear you were lucky with Belkin. With Kingston when they say it requires Win98SE, it would appear really mean it.
I - Sandor J
Sound judgement, with discernment, is the best of seers.
- Euripides (B.C. 480 - 406)

Some people have been experimenting with dos USB drivers to recognize various USB devices. I don't know if it's been accomplished with flash drives but you might want to look into it. You could start here:
http://www.bootdisk.com/usb.htm
If it would be possible to get dos to see the drive then 95 might also.

The poster already is (or should be) familiar with the 95 USB Guide mentioned in #5.
As (also) opined in that post - they were 'lucky' that time with Belkin
Resist the temptation to close your request for help with semantically-null questions like “Can anyone help me?”

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