re: Solution for 'Stop Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive' Tuesday, February 15, 2005 at 11:41 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by jon (3 messages posted) Another perfect solution is to do what I just finished doing. Under the Device Manager, right-click your floppy disk controller and choose Properties. Then, under the General Tab, change Device Usage to DISABLE. This will physically stop the computer from accessing the floppy until you want it to. Most people these days only use the floppy rarely in any case. Written in response to: re: Solution for 'Stop Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive' (Anonymous: Friday, February 27, 2004 at 6:44 pm) Responses to this message: re: Solution for 'Stop Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive' (Fredrik: Friday, February 18, 2005 at 1:55 pm) re: Solution for 'Stop Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive' (Ester: Thursday, April 28, 2005 at 10:33 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' (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' (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