>Rich wrote:
>
> Does anyone know why and how to stop my system from trying to access my
> empty floppy drive each time I save a file to my HD?
>I'm running Win95b on a no name system put together by a local integrator
>using mostly Acer Open components.  The system is a P200, 64MB.  It happens
>at startup (understandably) and shutdown, and when I save a file in
>Wordperfect 8.  The default directory in WP is a folder on the hard drive
>and not the floppy.  It also happens if I retrieve a file from the HD and
>then re-save it.  It also grinds away for a few seconds at other misc times
>that I didn't document and don't remember.
>
>Rich Levey
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Rich:

Just some thoughts on the matter:

It sounds similar to something I observed happening on my system with the
Mcafee vshield. It was configured to scan ALL drives at startup and
shutdown and to scan ALL files at run, copy, create and rename procedures.
Maybe you have an AV that is scanning your drives even every so often. If
this is the case just reset your settings to something a bit more
conservative.

Good Luck,




Ricardo A. Juliao L.
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