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During that time no generic USB mass-storage driver was produced by Microsoft (including for Windows 98), and a device-specific driver was needed for each type of USB storage device. Third-party, freeware drivers became available for Windows 98 and Windows 98SE, and third-party drivers are also available for Windows NT 4.0.
WinUSB is a generic USB driver provided by Microsoft, for their operating systems starting with Windows Vista but which is also available for Windows XP. It is aimed at simple devices that are accessed by only one application at a time (for example instruments like weather stations, devices that only need a diagnostic connection or for firmware upgrades).
There are, however, many SATA-I controllers for which Windows 98/Me drivers exist (and indeed Windows 2000 and Windows XP also provided SATA support via third-party drivers as well), and USB mass storage support has been added to Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 through third party drivers.
The IrDA stack in Windows 98 supports networking profiles over the IrCOMM kernel-mode driver. Windows 98 also has built-in support for browsing Distributed File System trees on Server Message Block shares such as Windows NT servers. [50] [51] UPnP and NAT traversal APIs can be installed on Windows 98 by installing the Windows XP Network Setup ...
USB and FireWire support improvements: Windows Me is the only operating system in the Windows 9x series that includes generic drivers for USB mass storage devices [26] and USB printers. [27] Support for FireWire SBP-2 scanners and storage devices is also improved. [28]
The latest version of U3 launchpad supports Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8. Data can be accessed using any OS capable of reading from USB mass storage devices, unless the U3 device is password-protected. [note 1]
In computing, the Windows Driver Model (WDM) – also known at one point as the Win32 Driver Model – is a framework for device drivers that was introduced with Windows 98 and Windows 2000 to replace VxD, which was used on older versions of Windows such as Windows 95 and Windows 3.1, as well as the Windows NT Driver Model.
1 Mac OS 8.5.1 Driver Question. 1 comment. 2 xbox 360, playstation 3, etc. mass storage. 3 Hot unplug. 6 comments. 4 Incorrect scale? 1 comment. ... 10 Windows 98SE.