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re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive'
Thursday, July 31, 2003 at 11:33 pm
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Posted by Ricer46 (19773 messages posted)


Yep, that will do it. Weird though, wonder how it got there.


On Thursday, July 31, 2003 at 11:09 pm, Jason Flores wrote:
>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.



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re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive' (Jason Flores: Thursday, July 31, 2003 at 11:09 pm)

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-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)
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