Floppy drive (A:) is accessed when Windows Explorer is opened

[Rich]

I have searched high and low for an answer to this issue with no joy.
I've found lots of ideas but nothing that has worked.

Every time I open Windows Explorer, my floppy drive does a quick
access ONCE. Explorer works fine otherwise.

Also with one program, Trojan Hunter, it tries to access the floppy
drive at startup and I must cancel that action SEVEN times before it
will finally stop complaining that I don't have a disk in the floppy
drive.

I suspect that these two actions- Explorer and Trojan Hunter are
somehow related to the same root cause. I have pursued this issue in
the Trojan Hunter forums with no success.

Here is what I have tried so far:

I searched the registry for any reference to a file or action
involving the A: drive. None found.

I have searched for .pif and .lnk files that reference the A: drive.
None found.

I have cleaned out the recent document list. No help.

I have looked in my autoexec.bat file for A: references. Found none.

I have tried all the possible solutions as described in Kelly's
Corner. Nothing I've tried works.

I have searched the MS Knowledge base but not found anything that
helps.

BTW, I have not used the A: drive for quite some time, but I also have
had this floppy access issue when opening explorer for a very long
time.

I'm still searching for a solution, but after several hours on this I
am running out of ideas.

Can anyone help me?

TIA, Rich

 

[Guest]

On the start menu, open the Search item to local files and folders. Click
"Change Preferences". You might have the option selected to 'index' files.

 

[Rich]

On the start menu, open the Search item to local files and folders. Click
"Change Preferences". You might have the option selected to 'index' files.

Yes, I did have indexing selected but un-selecting did not help the
problem.

 

[Guest]

My only other guess would be a damaged floppy drive. Good luck.

 

[Steve Swift]

Yes, I did have indexing selected but un-selecting did not help the

problem.

If you rarely use the diskette drive then you can probably disable it in
your BIOS settings. You can always re-enable it if you find a diskette.