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Windows XP - Floppy drive refreshing

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by mteal Sep 30, 2001 last reply Oct 1, 2001

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Hi
I'm using XP RC1 (build 2505). Whenever I open explorer or anything that causes windows to refresh the drives, it searches my floppy drive for a few seconds each and every time and it' really annoying !!! Is there any way that I can stop this????

Thanks in advance for any help

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by dklippert Sep 30, 2001

The usual answer to this problem is to clear out you MRU list of documents.
Right-click the Start button, and then click Properties.
On the Start Menu tab, click Start menu, and then click Customize.
On the Advanced tab, click Clear List to empty the My Recent Documents folder

If you are using Norton AV, uncheck:
" Check floppy for boot viruses upon access"
You might also want to look at this article; type the following in the address box of Internet Explorer:

MSKB Q216752

Goodluck

by mteal Sep 30, 2001

Thanks very much for the suggestions. Unfortunately the problem still comes up.

by geek2d Oct 1, 2001

I have seen this in 98 but havn't messed with XP so I dont know how closely they relate. In 98 you can go to system propertied, performance tab, File system properties, floppy tab, and remove the check next to Check for new floppy.... Again were this is in XP or if there is even a selection for file system properties, I don't know.