a: drive chatter when opening Notepad and Word

[mommabear]

Well fellas, I've tried it all. Still does it. I've messed with prefetch (off and on) cleaned out all my temp files, etc. Cleaned the registry after doing all that and guess what...

For the first time ever RegSupreme asked for a disk in A:drive while it scanned for obsolete/bad entries in my register!!! It's never, ever done that before! LOL! I uninstalled it and reinstalled it and it asked again. I can ignore it or put a floppy in and continue with the scan. I also looked at the registry entries it brought up and couldn't see anything that looked remotely relevant to the a: drive or text documents.

Ok, this is one of those things that my brain goes dead about. Can I try just removing and reinstalling the floppy driver in device manager? If I remove the driver and restart, Windows should find it again, right? Drivers have always been a bug-a-boo for me, for some reason. I thought I might try reinstalling the driver, if I can. What do you think?

[FastGame]

Can I try just removing and reinstalling the floppy driver in device manager? If I remove the driver and restart, Windows should find it again, right? Drivers have always been a bug-a-boo for me, for some reason. I thought I might try reinstalling the driver, if I can. What do you think?

Yeah that should be ok, the M$ driver is fine. If that doesn't work then unplug the floppy until you need it.

I once had a problem like that and Nortons AV was the cause, reinstalled Nortons and everything was ok.

[mommabear]

joshsiao came the closest, but it didn't register to me then.

This website talked about 95 and 98 but one line in it made a light bulb go off in my head. I tried some of the things they talked about anyway, but had no luck finding anything.

Enter the light bulb:

To avoid getting this random disk access again, avoid launching documents and programs off floppy disks.

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache...2Baccess&hl=en

Several weeks ago I needed to find an old password. I have a small little proggy that is self-executing and doesn't install. It's on a floppy along with the associated files with my passwords. So when I went to look for that old password, I opened the files with the .exe on the floppy.

I started out with the File Types and deleted the file association to it. That didn't do it. Off to the registry.

I don't know why...perhaps a typo...but the name of the little program didn't come up searching the registry. (It should have. It was named in the entries I did find by searching for the file extension for it.)

The file extension happened to be MSS. I can't tell you how many hundreds of valid entries for Microsoft contain mss!!! But I plodded through them all and came across three.

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT (two matches)
HKEY_CURRENT_USER
and they each had references to A: drive and the name of my program.

I deleted them and now I have a very quiet computer again.