re: Solution for 'Stop Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive' Tuesday, May 23, 2006 at 2:29 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Pete Schliebner (2 messages posted) I found a different solution than any posted here. I went to Control Panel/ Folder Options/ View and unchecked "Automatically search for network folders and printers". I hope this helps somebody else. 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) 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' (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