Win 98 searches for floppy drive; this is different
boles...@hotmail.com
here to begin] windows searches my floppy drive [A] first before it opens
up the start menu. Note: I have this option unchecked in device manager!
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Nutcase
Hi,
Try this:
Start/run regedit,
Click edit/find, search for "A:\" (without the quote marks)
See if it pops up in a MRU key (for Most Recently Used), if so, click on it,
then on file/export and save a copy to the desktop (or someplace that you
can later find it if needed), then delete it.
Use F3 to continue the search for additional entries.
Close the registry editor when complete.
*NOTE* Please use caution when working within the registry. Changes made
here are generally immediate. Making the wrong change or carelessly
changing/deleting keys can render your system unbootable. If you are unsure
about any change, don't do it. Before you make any changes to the registry,
know how to backup and restore the current one from a command prompt.
Hope this helps.
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> When I am at the windows desktop and I click on the start button [click
> here to begin] windows searches my floppy drive [A] first before it opens
> up the start menu. Note: I have this option unchecked in device manager!
'Hunting' on a: is often caused by recently accessed files from a:
From Windows Explorer, open any file, make a minor change, then save it to a
c:\ directory. Sometimes this has helped here.
If familiar with REGISTRY restore - in case of problems - then open REGEDIT
to seek out and delete MRU (most recent) entries that reference a:\.
Ilka Stromberg
Boleslav,
Nutcase's solution is the right one - the problem is 99% found through that
method. Just a [small] refinement on it, however : pick up REGISTRAR LITE
from the downloads of www.AnswersThatWork.com and you will be able to
search for all occurrences of A:\ in 2 seconds flat rather than constantly
using F3 which I have done thousands of times and I can tell you, it's
booooooooring !
Ilka.
boles...@hotmail.com wrote:
> When I am at the windows desktop and I click on the start button [click
> here to begin] windows searches my floppy drive [A] first before it opens
> up the start menu. Note: I have this option unchecked in device manager!
>
David Candy
*.lnk *.pif
in the search for field and
a:\
in the containing text field
See if any results are in c:\windows\start menu or c:\windows\recent
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Rick Chauvin
I found no entries of A:\ in any mru keys in the registry.
I did do a search as you suggested and twas nothing in those two folders you
mentioned but there was in the folder of C:\WINDOWS\PIF which had 2
Shortcuts in it to MS-DOS - One was for Winstall and the other was Install,
and as soon as the search from Find files came across these 2 shortcuts the
floppy acted up at the same time, and the same is true when I tried to look
at properties on them. Now my computer never did this until very recently
when I was working with some floppy programs and then this started where
when I start the computer the floppy would access for 5 -10 seconds which
never did before these last few days.
I see on these shortcuts under the tab of properties and program that the
command line on one shortcut says A:\WINSTALL.EXE and the other says
A:\INSTALL.EXE on it ...should I delete the command lines or delete the
shortcuts? ...is this what you were going to suggest? Were these added
here to the PIF folder from the programs I was working with? The dates are
much older on the shortcuts though.
Rick
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