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by kimscomputing

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2 questions:

1. My computer keeps reminding me that there is not a disk in my cd rom and floppy drives and won't let up until I put a disk - any disk in the drive. It started with just my floppy on startup but now it is my cdroms. It says "There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into drive F:" and the box is called Windows-No Disk. I have a current update of McAfee running and have no virus.

2. Is there a program like msconfig for win2000 so I can close some of my startup items?

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by ricardomenendez

Sometimes this works on our computers with problems like yours:

1) Uninstall the antivirus and try. Some times they just try to access drives without disks and return error messages like the ones you describe.

2) If that doesn't work download the latest drivers for your disk drive and CDROM unit and unistall both of them and let Windows do some plug and play on both. That should refresh your device driver library from any faulty version you might have running.

anyway when that has happened here it's usually the antivirus agent which is always running. We use Panda software but McAffee might give the same type of trouble.

by saihib

It sounds like the anti-virus software is trying to scan these drives. Copy msconfig from and win98 machine and put it in your \winnt\system32 folder and reboot. Then hit start/run and type in msconfig and you'll have it.

by meddjay

Is your version of McAfree current or updated? Cause it sounds to me like you have a bootsector virus, that are the symptoms of one. Go to the McAfree site and update your version.

by bobho

I'm not familiar with McAfee but you should be able to have it not scan CD's and floppies. Another thing to check is MS Office Fastfind. If you saved any documents spreadsheets to floppies Fastfind will try and keep track of them. I usually disable it.

You can use the msconfig from win98 on w2k but you will get some warning messages and it won't find many of your startup files. It will show you the startup items in the registry. Instead, use the msconfig from XP. I use the XP version and it works great on w2k.

Here's a link to download it if you don't have it:

http://www.thetechguide.com/downloads.html

Enjoy,

DrBob:>)

by kimscomputing

I have the newest version of McAfee possible and it is totally updated.

But I did notice when I restarted my machine that soundman.exe was the file looking for my floppy drive. It is installed in my winnt directory but I am afraid to delete it.Any suggestions?

by maddiuex

Mcafee is the problem. We have found that mcafee does this by design. and unistalling it manually does the trick

Hope this helps

by zekeallmon

I know you have tried McAfee, which i am not a huge fan of. I would try taking out the HD, putting it as slave on a good machine, and Scan it from that machine for Viruses'. This helped in my situation. Good luck

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