At 06:00 PM 2/17/98 -0500, you wrote:
>I have a new dell has two hard drives,tape backup,cd,floppy. Is there an
>easy answer
>why the floppy always seems to access.On bootup it seems to run long
>also.
>
>Thanks David Pray


David,

Since I have only heard of this occuring in Win95, I will go with the
assumption that you have Windows95 for an operating system.

Here are some of the known solutions for this "bug":

1)  Clear the documents menu.
2)  Clear Unwanted Entries from the Start Menu's Run Command.
3)  Search your hard disk for all .PIF that points to programs on a
       floppy drive and remove them.
4)  Take out LocalLoadHigh=1 from your MSDOS.SYS file.
5)  Check HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/CLSID in the Registry for any
       references to OCX's or DLL's referenced on the floppy.
6)  Check for any viruses on your system, although rare... it can happen

These software applications are known to cause this problem,
try disabling them or uninstaling them:

1) McAfee Antivirus '95
2) FirstAid '95
3) Long Filenames for Windows95
4) HiJack for Windows95
5) Konica Picture Show

This information was sourced from this web site:
  http://www.annoyances.org/win95/win95ann6.html#07

Check out this site for more information.

    Bob


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