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re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive'
Friday, February 8, 2002 at 7:15 pm
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Posted by lee (2 messages posted)


i had a similar problem, i found that "find fast" was the culprit. i simply removed it, and i have had no other floppy seek problems since. although you can disable "find fast" if you dont want to remove it.


On Saturday, October 6, 2001 at 12:25 pm, James Howard wrote:
>I have a question about Stop 
>Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive:

> >I figured this Floppy Bug out on my PC. Go to >www.antivrus.com/pc-cillin/ > >there you will find a free antivrus online scan program. After running the program, >a Troj-sircam.a virus was on my PC. The program reported all viruses and also removed >a file named >'Scam32.exe which was causing the floppy to access everytime I accessed a program >or when I turned on/off my PC. My PC runs great now. > >jh > > >




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Question about 'Stop Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive' (James Howard: Saturday, October 6, 2001 at 12:25 pm)

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-Question about 'Stop Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive' (James Howard: Sat, Oct 6, 2001, 12:25 pm)
-re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive' (James Howard: Sat, Oct 6, 2001, 12:31 pm)
*re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive' (James Howard: Sat, Oct 6, 2001, 12:32 pm)
*re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive' (lee: Fri, Feb 8, 2002, 7:15 pm)
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