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?