Re: Win 95/98 empty A: drive activity... -- MIDRANGE-L


I do not know if this will help you solve this problem,
but look at this site it has a good reference about these things

http://www.annoyances.org/win95/win95ann6.html

I am quoting below a section from this site 
That, I think, relevant to your problem

Mohamad Bishinnaty

"
Stop Windows95 from Randomly Searching the Floppy
Drive

     Last Modified: 4/17/96

     A strange bug has popped up in Windows-95, where the floppy drive 
(or drives) is searched
     every time an application is launched. This problem is not confined 
to the use of Explorer, or
     necessarily on systems with Norton Navigator installed. This 
problem is not caused by an
     intial access to the floppy, as rebooting does not solve the 
problem. 

     The following are possible solutions to this problem: 
            Clear the documents menu. 
            Clear Unwanted Entries from the Start Menu's Run Command. 
            Check for any viruses on your system (some users have 
reported the NEUVILLE
          virus) 
            Search your hard disk for all .PIF that point to programs on 
a floppy drive 
            Take out LocalLoadHigh=1 from your MSDOS.SYS file. 
            Check HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/CLSID in the Registry for any 
references to
          OCX's or DLL's referenced on the floppy. - submitted by Joseph 
LeVasseur 

     If you're using Norton Navigator '95: 
            Clear Norton Navigator's Run history (or disable the Run 
history all together). 
            If you're noticing this behavior with only a particular 
applications, you must clear the
          History List for that application. 
            Download the bug fix from ftp.symantec.com. 

     Other programs known to cause this problem: 
            McAfee Antivirus '95 - try removing this program entirely, 
or just disbling the
          Access & Shutdown options in the Scan Disks On area in the 
Detection tab of the
          VShield Configuration Manager. 
            FirstAid '95 - try removing this program or disabling 
certain features. 
            Long Filenames for Windows95 - View Software has a patch 
that supposedly
          fixes this problem. 
            HiJack for Windows95 - turning off "Enable HiJaak shell 
extensions" in the HiJack
          Control Panel. 
            Konica Picture Show - try removing this program entirely. 
"


>Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 21:02:12 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Don <dr2@access.digex.net>
>To: midrange-l@midrange.com
>Subject: Win 95/98 empty A: drive activity...
>Reply-To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
>
>
>My appologies for this being a bit off topic, but it's something that's
>bugging the heck out of us.   
>
>With Win 95/98 there are seemingly random times when the CPU will 
attempt
>to access the A drive diskette...which is normally empty.  Does any one
>know why and what the heck is going on???
>
>TIA
>
>Don in DC
>
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