re: Constantly Accessing Floppy Drive Thursday, January 9, 2003 at 7:28 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Ricer46 (22013 messages posted) one frequent cause of this is opening a file directly from a floppy (a very poor practice). This puts the file on the Recent Files list, so Explorer periodically "looks" for it. Check there, and remove any file references to the floppy. Sometimes people rather stupidly end up with a reference to a file on the A:\ drive in their startup folder. On Wednesday, January 8, 2003 at 9:07 pm, LF wrote: >I'm dealing with a few systems that have Windows XP Pro installed cleanly on them >and on random boot-ups they constantly try to access the floppy drive once Windows >gets to the desktop. All other applications and services are INCREDIBLY slow while >this happens. The only thing to do is shut down. I've cleared all startup programs >with MSCONFIG, but the problem still occurs. Any ideas? Written in response to: Constantly Accessing Floppy Drive (LF: Wednesday, January 8, 2003 at 9:07 pm) Responses to this message: re: Constantly Accessing Floppy Drive (LF: Thursday, January 9, 2003 at 11:50 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Constantly Accessing Floppy Drive (LF: Wed, Jan 8, 2003, 9:07 pm) re: Constantly Accessing Floppy Drive (Steve: Wed, Jan 8, 2003, 9:18 pm) re: Constantly Accessing Floppy Drive (Bob: Thu, Jun 5, 2003, 8:15 am) re: Constantly Accessing Floppy Drive (Ricer46: Thu, Jan 9, 2003, 7:28 am) re: Constantly Accessing Floppy Drive (LF: Thu, Jan 9, 2003, 11:50 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum