re: Solution for 'Stop Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive' Friday, February 27, 2004 at 6:44 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Anonymous (1 messages posted) Maybe changing the battery that keeps the CMOS BIOS settings up and running. If the battery is flat or starting loose power you may encounter random floppy access. This was what solved my problem at least Anonymous On Wednesday, January 29, 2003 at 12:57 pm, Bob Harvey wrote: >I have a comment about Stop >Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive: >None of the items mentioned in the article appeared to work for my random floppy >seeks in Windows XP. I was getting quite frustrated till I also noticed the floppy >would access every time I opened a hard drive or CD folder window. If I opened more >folders inside this window, no seek, but close the main window, and it again activated >the floppy. > >I finally traced it down to the WinXP setting for running folder windows in a separate >process. Once I unclicked that check box under folder options, the problem disappeared. > FYI. > Written in response to: Solution for 'Stop Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive' (Bob Harvey: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 at 12:57 pm) Responses to this message: re: Solution for 'Stop Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive' (jon: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 at 11:41 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Solution for 'Stop Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive' (Bob Harvey: Wed, Jan 29, 2003, 12:57 pm) re: Solution for 'Stop Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive' (Flozem: Thu, Mar 20, 2003, 3:15 pm) re: Solution for 'Stop Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive' (Rudy: Fri, Apr 25, 2003, 11:53 am) re: Solution for 'Stop Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive' (bunnyslipers: Thu, Jun 5, 2003, 7:02 pm) re: Solution for 'Stop Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive' (brian: Wed, Jun 11, 2003, 8:07 pm) re: Solution for 'Stop Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive' (Dan: Sat, Aug 2, 2003, 8:49 pm) re: Solution for 'Stop Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive' (Jorge: Sun, Nov 16, 2003, 10:03 pm) re: Solution for 'Stop Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive' (John Werner: Fri, May 26, 2006, 4:15 am) re: Solution for 'Stop Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive' (Jerry: Sat, Nov 3, 2007, 3:00 pm) re: Solution for 'Stop Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive' (Ernie: Sat, Apr 24, 2010, 12:46 pm) re: Solution for 'Stop Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive' (Richard Drdul: Sat, Dec 20, 2003, 6:31 pm) re: Solution for 'Stop Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive' (Geoff: Fri, Jan 30, 2004, 8:13 am) re: Solution for 'Stop Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive' (Anonymous: Fri, Feb 27, 2004, 6:44 pm) re: Solution for 'Stop Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive' (jon: Tue, Feb 15, 2005, 11:41 am) re: Solution for 'Stop Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive' (Fredrik: Fri, Feb 18, 2005, 1:55 pm) re: Solution for 'Stop Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive' (Ester: Thu, Apr 28, 2005, 10:33 am) re: Solution for 'Stop Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive' (Mano: Fri, Jul 1, 2005, 7:52 am) re: Solution for 'Stop Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive' (zzyzx: Mon, Dec 28, 2009, 8:52 pm) re: Solution for 'Stop Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive' (burgmeister: Tue, Apr 12, 2005, 3:30 pm) re: Possible Solution for 'Stop Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive' (Otis: Tue, Aug 30, 2005, 9:46 am) re: Solution for 'Stop Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive' (Mike Davis: Sun, Sep 11, 2005, 6:53 am) re: Solution for 'Stop Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive' (Pete Schliebner: Tue, May 23, 2006, 2:29 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