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Dear PCBuild Folks,
> On 12 Mar 99, at 13:05, Holli Van Nest wrote:
> > Every 5 minutes or so, the computer tries to read the floppy drive,
> > and there's no disk in it. The drive spins away for about 10
> > seconds, then stops. Five minutes later, it starts again. It
> > doesn't seem to be causing any problem, but the user finds it
> > annoying. Any suggestions?
On March 17, Dave Gillett responded:
> This sounds kind of like some kind of "disk change" polling or
> antivirus scan. I'd fire up REGEDIT and search for reverences to
> "A:"....
Thanks for the suggestion. I ran regedit and found several
references to a:. Some of them were to old files that had been
opened from a disk, so I deleted those references.
Three of the references were for MRU. One was in HKEY_CURRENT_USER,
InstallLocationsMRU. The other two were in HKEY_USERS, Default,
Windows, RunMRU and referenced a setup.exe file. And I don't know
what these files are, and whether this is where the issue is.
Should I try deleting these references too? Or changing them
somehow? The reference reads: "a:\setup\1" and "a:\setup.exe\1".
Not real familiar with what the references in the registry mean.
Thanks for any suggestions!
Holli
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