For some reason my floppy drive is being accessed every time Windows XP
SP1starts, right between the login screen and the desktop. Does anyone know
if any of the recent updates could be causing this?I have Norton AV
installed and it does scan the drive after it started, but
the floppy access when Windows starts is a relatively new development. Up
until this started the floppy was only accessed twice during startup, once
during POST and once after NAV loaded. Now something is accessing the drive
in between these two. I disabled NAV's Auto-protect feature to see if it
would make a difference but something still accesses the floppy on Windows
start. I've searched MSCONFIG, the registry, and the system and win.ini
files to see if anything is pointing to a:\ but found nothing. On someone's
suggestion I changed the registry value NoDriveTypeAutoRun from 91 to 95 in
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Pol icies\Explorer, but this
made no difference. It's probably no big deal but it's driving me nuts. Does
anyone have any ideas?

Mike

Try this: Go to Start> Taskbar & Start menu> Start menu tab
click the Customize button and Clear the recently accessed documents,
programs> OK. Restart and see if this helps.

I flashed my DVD firmware the other day and same thing happened.
Dell told me to rename both autoexec.bat & config.sys files, it didn't work
and almost screwed up my computer. While poking around, I move my
mouse over Documents on the Start menu, and the drive was being
accessed again. That's how I discovered the problem.


"Mike" wrote

Thanks Liz, but I have Tweakui set to clear the document history on exit, so
there are no recent documents. I can't seem to find any reason for this
arbitrary floppy grinding. I guess that's why it niggles me so much. Thanks
for the input though nonetheless.

Mike

"Liz" <liz@where.abouts> wrote in message
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See if there's any info here that might help:

Floppy Drive Access Bug
http://www.createwindow.com/wininfo/floppybug.htm


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Thanks Mike. I visited that site last night but found no PIF files pointing
to the A: drive. Thanks anyway. I'm sure I'll find the culprit eventually.
Mike

"°Mike°" <ZHNTPDWBLECA@fcnzzbgry.pbz> wrote in message
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The pleasure is all mine, Mike. Sorry that didn't help. When I had the
problem, I searched the Dell's online support forum and found several uses
have the same problem but there weren't any reply. I also searched the net,
one said her problem was associated with an email attachment sent from floppy,
after deleting the sent email, the problem disappeared. One said his problem
vanished as mysteriously as it came. Ha ha! One reply said the most likely
cause is that a program was launched from the floppy drive at some point,
and Windows has now made this the current drive. However, this problem
manifests itself even when the system is restarted. There are many things that
can cause this problem, such as references to the floppy drive in 'certain places'
as well as some third-party software. It was an unusually loud grinding noise,
very bizarre and annoying, indeed. Good luck with investigating.

P.S. I have yet to see a poster posting this mysterious problem and got
a fix from someone else but themselves...


"Mike" <brainhertz@nospamcomcast.net> wrote

Ok, good luck.


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