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On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 01:37:38 -0500, "AMD'r" <*******@***mail.com>
wrote:
>>>A friend of mine has a new system and his floppy randomly starts up and make
>>>alot of noise, trying to read or write something. He says it happens even
>>>when he's away from the computer and for no apparent reason. Everything is
>>>about 1 month old and has done it from day 1. It's a Sempron 2200, ASrock
>>>K7S41GX board, 512 ddr333, 40GB Maxtor, adsl, 52x cd-rom and the floppy,
>>>it's running Win98SE with all updates. Anyone have any ideas?
>>>
>>>Thanks, AMD'r
>>>
>>>imamdr at gmail . com
>>>
Stop Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive
Intended For
Windows Me
Windows 98
Windows 95
A strange bug that popped up in Windows 95 occasionally shows itself
in later versions, where the floppy drive (or drives) is searched
every time an application is launched. This problem is not confined to
the use of Explorer, or necessarily on systems with Norton Navigator
installed. This problem is not caused by an intial access to the
floppy, as rebooting does not solve the problem.
The following are possible solutions to this problem:
Clear the documents menu.
Clear Unwanted Entries from the Start Menu's Run Command.
Check for any viruses on your system (some users have reported the
NEUVILLE virus)
Search your hard disk for all .PIF that point to programs on a floppy
drive
Take out LocalLoadHigh=1 from your MSDOS.SYS file.
Check HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/CLSID in the Registry for any references to
OCX's or DLL's referenced on the floppy.
Double-click on the System icon in Control panel, choose the Device
Manager tab, and delete the GENERIC FLOPPY DISK entry (found under
Disk drives). When Windows restarts, it'll re-detect the drive and the
problem should go away.
Other programs known to cause this problem:
Norton Navigator - Clear Norton Navigator's Run history (or disable
the Run history all together), and download the bug fix from Symantec.
McAfee Antivirus '95 - try removing this program entirely, or just
disabling the Access & Shutdown options in the Scan Disks On area in
the Detection tab of the VShield Configuration Manager.
FirstAid '95 - try removing this program or disabling certain
features.
Long Filenames for Windows 98 - View Software has a patch that
supposedly fixes this problem.
HiJack for Windows 98 - turning off "Enable HiJack shell extensions"
in the HiJack Control Panel.
Konica Picture Show - try removing this program entirely.
Norton Antivirus 2000 - turn off the options that scan the floppy
drive during startup and shutdown
Written by: Annoyances.org
Last updated: Thursday, December 5, 2002
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article07-037
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