re: Solution for 'Stop Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive' Friday, February 18, 2005 at 1:55 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Fredrik (1 messages posted) I have a similar annoying problem: The CDRW has accepted the role of being a floppy and is always searched through at bootup. I've disabled and removed every instance of floppy - dug deep in BIOS, Reg. and init-files etc. - but the floppy keeps coming back in Explorer and is virtually searched through when starting. On Tuesday, February 15, 2005 at 11:41 am, jon wrote: >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' (jon: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 at 11:41 am) There are presently no replies to this message. 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