Something keeps trying to access my floppy

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Jim Lewis

This isn't the right forum, I know, and if there's a better one,
please let me know. I tried the Office Setup forum and got no
answer.

I had to re-install my copy of Office 97. Ever since, about once
an hour something tries to access my floppy (and heaven knows
what else). Things stop for abut 45 seconds while this happens.

I ran ad aware, and spybot (updated); nothing. I used Easy
Cleaner and found nothing. I checked MSCONFIG and nothing seemed
unusual about my startup. I checked in the Close Program box.
Nothing new there. I looked through the Program Files and my C
drive directories, and found nothing new (that I could identify).

But _something_ is accessing my A drive. I checked M'soft's
knowledge base and found something about Outlook (which I never
use) accessing the drive, so I removed Outlook. Something STILL
is accessing my drive -- or trying to, there's never anything in
it. ;-)

I've run though my own "knowledge base."

Anyone have suggestions or pointers (including to the appropriate
NG)?

Jim Lewis - (e-mail address removed) - Tallahassee, FL - Only to the
white man was nature a wilderness -- Luther Standing Bear
(Ogallala Sioux Chief)
 
Is there a link to anything somewhere?

A forgotten link on the desktop, or in my documents, or even in somewhere
silly.

I've seen this happen where something is tied to the A drive and gets
checked but of course is missing.

Have you tried it with a disk in to see if there's any message to give you a
clue?

You may then have some clearer idea what to look for...

Charlie
 
Hi Jim,

No, this might not be the best group. But I guess one of the following:

- The last time you saved something from within your browser (a download, a
page or an image you saved) you saved to A:. Just open a page, File, Save
as, desktop.
- The last time you saved/opened something from within Word, you used A:.
Start Word, File, Save as, Desktop, test.doc.

Kind regards

Hans Le Roy
MS MVP Win/IE-OE
 
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