Floppy seek when click on My Computer in Explorer

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rick cameron

Hi, all

On one of my PCs (Windows XP Pro SP2) whenever I click on My Computer in
Windows Explorer, the floppy drive seeks.

I've seen various postings on this. The most common solution seems to be to
disable auto-run for removable drives (or explicitly for drive a:). I've
tried this, but it didn't work.

Does the floppy seek because Explorer is trying to find out the capacity &
free space on drive a:? If so, how do I tell it not to do this? My other PC
(set up very similarly) doesn't do this.

Thanks!

- rick
 
rick said:
Hi, all

On one of my PCs (Windows XP Pro SP2) whenever I click on My Computer in
Windows Explorer, the floppy drive seeks.

I've seen various postings on this. The most common solution seems to be to
disable auto-run for removable drives (or explicitly for drive a:). I've
tried this, but it didn't work.

Does the floppy seek because Explorer is trying to find out the capacity &
free space on drive a:? If so, how do I tell it not to do this? My other PC
(set up very similarly) doesn't do this.
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Do you have an anti-virus or disk-search program (unknowingly)
configured to check this drive?
 
Mike Williams said:
Do you have an anti-virus or disk-search program (unknowingly) configured
to check this drive?
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try clearing your recently viewed documents list (if you accessed a file
from a floppy and its still in the list , windows will sometimes search for
it)
 
Check your environment variables such as PATH to see if one of them
contains a reference to A: .
 
Wow - lots of suggestions! Unfortunately, none of them made a difference :-(

I think what most people complain of is floppy seek when booting up or
shutting down. My problem is different - it only happens when I click on 'My
Computer' in the folder tree of Windows Explorer. It's as if Explorer wants
to show the free space on drive a: - but if I have a floppy in the drive, it
doesn't show the free space!

Any more ideas?

Thanks

- rick
 
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Hi, all

On one of my PCs (Windows XP Pro SP2) whenever I click on My Computer in
Windows Explorer, the floppy drive seeks.

I've seen various postings on this. The most common solution seems to be to
disable auto-run for removable drives (or explicitly for drive a:). I've
tried this, but it didn't work.

Does the floppy seek because Explorer is trying to find out the capacity &
free space on drive a:? If so, how do I tell it not to do this? My other PC
(set up very similarly) doesn't do this.
Click to expand...

I had this problem in NT many years ago. It turned out that some piece
of software set a flag in the registry. I even contacted Microsoft
support. They gave me the standard "wipe your disk & re-install
everything" shtick. Unfortunately, I have no idea what the exact fix
was. There's a good chance you can find it in Google groups archives.

I wish I could be more help. I'm sure this is the same probloem I had,
and I went through a lot of the same dead ends trying to fix it.

Doug White
 
Hi, Doug

I found a thread in comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc from June 1999 with your name
on it - but the thread stops before the problem is solved :-(

Cheers

- rick
 
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Hi, Doug

I found a thread in comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc from June 1999 with your name
on it - but the thread stops before the problem is solved :-(
Click to expand...

Well, at least you found the time frame. I posted in several different
groups. I hammered on the problem for several months, and was about to
give up & do a clean restore when I posted one last time and hit paydirt.

I did some digging, and found it (NOTE!: this worked in NT4.0, and XP may
be different):

Try changing the registry entry:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies
\Explorer

NoDriveType key to 0x00000095

That is the default, and that should take care of it.

Good luck, and let us know if it works.

Doug White
 
Doug White said:
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Try changing the registry entry:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies
\Explorer

NoDriveType key to 0x00000095

That is the default, and that should take care of it.

Good luck, and let us know if it works.

Doug White
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Hi, Doug

Did you mean NoDriveTypeAutoRun? I already had that set to 0x95. I also
tried NoDriveType - but it didn't work :-( I also tried setting the
corresponding value under HKLM, but no dice.

Thanks for the suggestion!

- rick
 
Doug,

It is NoDriveTypeAutoRun

NoDriveTypeAutoRun
http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/1142/

Here're the policie...

NoDriveTypeAutoRun
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...s/2000/server/reskit/en-us/regentry/93502.asp

NoDriveTypeAutoRun
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...s/2000/server/reskit/en-us/regentry/91525.asp

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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