re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive' Thursday, July 31, 2003 at 11:09 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Jason Flores (1 messages posted) OK, here is a new solution (referenced under a WinME discussion) My problem was that any application that I would start or folders I would open (including start menu) would cause the floppy to activate. I had a reference to A: in my PATH environmental variable (System Properties - Advanced tab - Environmental variables). Also found a path statment with a reference to A: in my autoexec.bat file. Did not think that file was used with XP but it caused A: to be added to the environmental path. Written in response to: Question about 'Stop Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive' (Matt: Thursday, July 31, 2003 at 10:41 pm) Responses to this message: re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive' (Ricer46: Thursday, July 31, 2003 at 11:33 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'Stop Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive' (Matt: Thu, Jul 31, 2003, 10:41 pm) re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive' (Ricer46: Thu, Jul 31, 2003, 10:51 pm) re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive' (Jason Flores: Thu, Jul 31, 2003, 11:09 pm) re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive' (Ricer46: Thu, Jul 31, 2003, 11:33 pm) 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