Why is floppy drive A: always accessed b4 Win95 shut down?

[vortex_xtreme]

This problem just pop up of nowhere. The floppy drive A: is always accessed just before the Win95 goes to the 'It is now safe to shut down' screen whenever I clicked on Start/Shut down../shut down the computer.

Any remedy please? Thanks.

[Rickee]

Hi,

I had similar experiences with Win95/98 searching the floppy prior to shut down. Here are some of the items I discovered, which may or may not help in your case:

1. If you have MS Office, get rid of Find Fast and Office Startup (not Shortcut Bar).

2. If you formatted your HD using a bootable floppy drive, the OS may have used the floppy's autoexec or config files instead of the HD's. This one's really weird. A friend's computer had this problem and the only reason I found out was because I was using SYSEDIT and tried to save the autoexec and config. When it tried to write, it was accessing the A: Drive!

3. If you have Windows Explorer or Control Panel open during shut down, it sometimes accesses the floppy. I still have this problem with Control Panel. Whenever I open this up, it accesses both the floppy and the CDRom. Go figure http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif.

Anyways, hope I added some value to your trouble shooting.

Eric///

[MR COMPUTER]

If you are running MACAFEE virus scan, go into properties,and uncheck the "scan floppy drives on shutdown" box.

[This message has been edited by MR COMPUTER (edited 04-07-99).]

[BC_1]

Norton does the same thing. Turn off the "scan a:\ during shut down" option.