A Drive getting searched when it shouldn't...

[Kristen178]

Hi! I was wondering if anyone could help me with this one... This man I work with claims this problem started when Norton SystemWorks was installed... When he opens up Windows Explorer, and I believe other applications, the A drive starts lighting up and searches for something in there, when there's nothing there... Norton was uninstalled and reinstalled. What could be making the computer search for something in the A drive all the time? Thanks...

[Mntsnow]

When you open up an explorer window it will want to "prefetch" the info that is in the drives. (ie what folders ect) so it will hit the A drive as it will be wanting to check to see if there is any virus's on that disk.

Mntsnow

[Kristen178]

So, is there anyway for it to not check the drive?

[Dave_H]

For System Works 2000, this would be what to do. Open System Works, click the button "options" and select Norton Anti-virus. On the left, go to auto protect/advanced, then on the right side clear the two boxes under "floppy disk scans"
Hope that helps. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif
Dave

[Brangwen]

Kristen, my wife was being driven bananas by the same problem. In addition, every 15 mintes or so the A drive would be searched. This would cause her computer to pause for a couple of seconds when a couple of seconds really mattered playing a particular online game. You may be able (and it may be more prudent) to do this in Bios, if you can disable the A drive. My wife MAYBE utilizes that drive once every two months. I chose to go into Device Manager (Win98se) and disable the floppy there. I know there may be concerns with a crash and needing to use the A drive for a boot disk, but her's is more a toy than a tool she must depend on daily, and I'll cross that bridge should or if I need to.

Some / many of our fellow members may think this is terrible advice, and they may be right but it works for my wife.

Good luck!

Brangwen http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif

[daveleau]

Had a similar problem on a guy's computer. He asked me to back up some email to floppy for him and all of a sudden every time I rebooted or opened certain apps, the fdd would get searched. I found that by deleting the recent document list with TweakUI, solved the problem. It was just looking for the files that were on floppy.
Dave