Does USB work on a windows 95?

I installed a USB camera on my Dell PII/450 this weekend and needed to do a
couple of hours research to get it finally installed.

First issue was a missing file in Windows. This was a cheapo D-Link DSC-350
camera (does both still photos and operates as a web cam. Fine for my
purposes.) Seemed the NTKERN.VXD file was missing from the Windows operating
system. Was never inititally installed with Win98 since I was not running a
device that required it when Win98 was originally put on this PC.

This info was nowhere in the manuals that came with the camera, but was only
available from a FAQ available from D-Link's support web site. Had to look a
bit, but it was there.

You would have thought that when D-Link sold a $129 camera that their
bundled software would have checked for needed files not likely to be
present. My USB scanner runs fine without that file, so I knew USB worked on
my PC. However, who buys a $129 camera as their second digital camera
purchase? This purchase is the first time a USB camera has likely ever been
attached to that computer. You'd think a basic file check would be part of
the installation, but apparently not.

So, my first suggestion is to go the web site for your Intel CS330 and see
what their FAQ's, tech help or their Knowledge Base have to say on the
subject. Often it is a well known issue that was only discovered after your
product manuals were printed and shipped. If lucky, you'll find it right out
of the box and only need to say a few curse words.

The second problem I had was that I had installed a USB port replicator on
my Dell. This was so I could install new USB devises from the front of the
PC. Pulling the box out is a PITA given its location in my furniture; about
15 minutes just to plug something into the rear of the PC and put things
back.

After much reading and searching, I came across a single line at the end of
an obscure note that said this product doesn't work with USB port
replicators. NONE of the problem FAQ's mentioned this. The product
literature mentions nothing about this requirement. That I don't understand!

I shut my PC down, pulled it out and plugged the USB cord into the second
USB connector on the back of my Dell and put everything back. On boot, the
camera worked perfectly.

Silly me, I thought USB was a "standard" interface. Guess not, though I
still don't really know if this is D-Link's fault or the USB port
replicator's fault for "cheating" on the standards.

It all just goes to prove you can assume NOTHING when you buy a new product
for your home PC. I knew my system from top to bottom. I read the fine print
on the product specs at the store. Everything seemed to match up just fine,
but in the end it was a PITA to get things working correctly. Even now the
problem has been solved, I can find nothing in the information that came
with the camera that would have alerted me to any of these problems.

In your case, Win95, even with the update files, may not be adequate to
support your camera. You might need to update the OS. As noted before,
Intel's support site should have a notation somewhere regarding this issue.
Good luck!