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Word XP keeps "seeking" floppy

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by cmb from omaha 1 view

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Whenever I open or close Word on my work pc, the program "seeks" the (usually empty) floppy drive. That is, the program is apparently trying to read from or write to a floppy. The "File Locations" under "options" look okay; does anyone have any other ideas to turn off this annoying problem? Thanks.

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by dklippert

Go to Tools>Options General and tune off the Recently used list. Close Word and then reopen and put the check back.
If all else fails, rename/delete Normal.Dot

by cmb from omaha

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Thanks--unfortunately clearing the "recently used" list didn't help in this case. Seems the culprit was a demo version of "Wordrecovery". Once I uninstalled that, the problem has apparently gone away. BTW, I loved your PowerPoint book!

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