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re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive'
Thursday, July 31, 2003 at 10:51 pm
Posted by Ricer46
(22033 messages posted)
I bet more than 90% of the time it results from editing documents directly from the
floppy which leaves a shortcut in Recent Docs. I look at that as a good warning to
tell people to stop a bad practice.
On Thursday, July 31, 2003 at 10:41 pm, Matt wrote:
>Solution for Windows XP:
>0x95 will stop it.
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>http://www.tburke.net/info/regentry/91525.htm
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re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive'
Thursday, July 31, 2003 at 11:09 pm
Posted by Jason Flores
(1 messages posted)
OK, here is a new solution (referenced under a WinME discussion)
My problem was that any application that I would start or folders I would open (including
start menu) would cause the floppy to activate.
I had a reference to A: in my PATH environmental variable (System Properties - Advanced
tab - Environmental variables). Also found a path statment with a reference to A:
in my autoexec.bat file. Did not think that file was used with XP but it caused
A: to be added to the environmental path.
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re: Question about 'Stop Windows from Randomly Searching the Floppy Drive'
Thursday, July 31, 2003 at 11:33 pm
Posted by Ricer46
(22033 messages posted)
Yep, that will do it. Weird though, wonder how it got there.
On Thursday, July 31, 2003 at 11:09 pm, Jason Flores wrote:
>OK, here is a new solution (referenced under a WinME discussion)
>
>My problem was that any application that I would start or folders I would open (including
>start menu) would cause the floppy to activate.
>
>I had a reference to A: in my PATH environmental variable (System Properties - Advanced
>tab - Environmental variables). Also found a path statment with a reference to
A:
>in my autoexec.bat file. Did not think that file was used with XP but it caused
>A: to be added to the environmental path.
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