re: Solution for 'Stop Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive' Monday, December 28, 2009 at 8:52 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by zzyzx (1 messages posted) Thank you for posting this tip. Your solution solved the regular floppy access annoyance by XP on my home computer. On Friday, July 1, 2005 at 7:52 am, Mano wrote: >I found the answer to the floppy drive random access Problem. It took me awhile and >some restless night to get it. So Here it IS. > >In Window Explorer, Click Tools, Folder Option, View, >Uncheck Show encrypted or compressed NTFS files in color. > >I hope this will help anyone that is experiencing this particular problem. > >Best of Luck, >Mano > > > Written in response to: re: Solution for 'Stop Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive' (Mano: Friday, July 1, 2005 at 7:52 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