How to stop win98 searching for floppy's

[RobUK]

How do you stop Win98 searching for a floppy disk each time control pannel is accessed???
It is really anoying. (In polite tearms)

Rob http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[Steve R Jones]

Virus programs will cause this. Also click on start run. If the command line starts with A:\ then type sysedit and OK. Then close out sysedit....

[Dave_H]

Steve's right about usually it being an AV program set to scan floppies.
Another thing to try is clearing out the shortcuts in your document menu. Every time I access something of a floppy, the same happens to me until I remove the shortcut from the menu.
Dave

[Warthog]

Yeah must be AV because it doesn't happen to me - tweek the settings and it shouldn't (I don't think).

Warthog

[socalgal]

Check these threads http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/Forum1/HTML/000476.html

http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/Forum1/HTML/007086.html

[RobUK]

Thanx dave for the advice, but it's not done anything. I have done everything that Win98 anoyences suggests with no luck. This is really starting to p**s me off. I think i'll end up formatting the computer.

Rob http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/frown.gif

[RobUK]

I haven't got any AntiVirus software installed on my machine at the moment. I have tried all of the other suggestions too, but it seeks the floppy drive each time control pannel is loaded. Any other suggestions???

Rob

[Dave_H]

Here are some more things to try, hope one of them works for you Rob. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif http://www.annoyances.org/cgi-bin/ce-showtopic/005_037
Dave