re: My own solution to 'Stop Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive'
Saturday, March 26, 2005 at 8:09 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by felix
(1 messages posted)
None of the above worked for me except the wonderful person who pointed to Zone Alarm
as the culprit in his case.So I switched ZA alarm off and puff,the problem is gone.I
know I need ZA, I cannot switch it off forever.This free version that's giving me
problems have not been updated for quite sometime ( free version 45 594 000).Their
website suggested that if you have been having problems with ZA select clean install
during the update,if you have not been having problems,then select update.The clean
install will reset all settings in ZA,upgrade will preserve them.I selected the clean
install free version 5.5.062.011 for my windows xp with no problems so far.A very
big thanks to all.
Felix.
On Sunday, March 13, 2005 at 1:58 pm, bigboy wrote:
>Re: Stop
>Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive:
>
>I tried everything above, and it didn't seem to work. However, I did notice that
>when I checked the PATH environment variable on the command line, something was
adding
>my floppy drive to the path. It wasn't in my Advanced settings in the System control
>panel. But I did see it when I ran CMD.EXE and typed "set" to see all the environment
>variables.
>
>However, after doing some searching around, I found that my partition with Win98
>bootfiles had an autoexec.bat file there. And that is what was adding a:\ to my
path!
>Once I commented it out the set path line, my floppy grinding went away.
>
>So, for some reason, WinXP was executing that autoexec.bat file that wasn't sitting
>on the system partition(!), which added a:\ to my path, and caused all the grinding
>noise whenever I ran a program.
>
>So, if none of the above solutions work, check your PATH environment variable on
>the command line to see if your floppy drive is on it. If it is, it could be an
autoexec.bat
>file sitting somewhere....
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