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AlwaysUp
03-02-2003, 10:44 PM
I have been told that WinNT 4.0, that USB is not supported at all. Is this correct?
Fastfly
03-02-2003, 10:53 PM
Correct but there are some thirdparty hardware I believe.


Maybe someone can give us some more information.
RenegadeKing
03-02-2003, 11:00 PM
Tried searching google, and found one thing that said NT4 doesn't have USB support. Looked thru microsoft.com's NT 4 homepage, and didn't find anything about USB. So I'm guess you're correct. Although there may be third party drivers. I don't know.

Found this too: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;196661
Computer Hobbyist
03-02-2003, 11:17 PM
If you think about it, it shouldn't be a surprise that NT 4.0 doesn't have USB support. NT is a server OS, not a desktop OS. Not much call for USB on a server. Especially when NT 4.0 was written and introduced.

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Tuf
03-02-2003, 11:39 PM
As far as I know there is no USB support in NT 4.0.
AlwaysUp
03-03-2003, 01:16 AM
So, never in Microsoft's wildest imagination would any NT 4 user EVER desire to use a USB device? How pea-brained and tunnelvisioned can that be?
lil Jimmie
03-03-2003, 01:38 AM
$$$ that is why we now have Windows 2000 and Windows XP family of OS's
Tuf
03-03-2003, 03:41 AM
You have to realize NT4 came out before USB was popular, maybe even before USB was available. It's still a pretty decent OS considering how old it is. I can't even imagine how many machines there are out there still running on it, but it's a bunch.