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phobia
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WinXP randomly and mysteriously looks for a floppy disk
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May 22, 2002, 09:05:07 PM »
For winxp users: Anyone experience winxp looking for a floppy disk even if your're not asking it to look for one? It randomly pops up a window. Here's the msg that the pop-up window have...
"Application popup: Explorer.EXE - No Disk : There is no d
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edmon_cu
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WinXP randomly and mysteriously looks for a floppy disk
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May 22, 2002, 09:40:28 PM »
anyway, i frequently noticed the FDD light flashes at random points especially noticing them when I change desktop scheme's... i wonder why is this so or how I can disable this one.
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calvin
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WinXP randomly and mysteriously looks for a floppy disk
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May 22, 2002, 09:45:08 PM »
check your event viewer... hopefully, you'll see a warning message... if you're lucky, you'll also see which app is trying to access your FDD...
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phobia
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WinXP randomly and mysteriously looks for a floppy disk
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May 23, 2002, 01:31:13 AM »
i already checked the event viewer but it only shows the same msg that shows with the pop-up window. (see first post)
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Seducer
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WinXP randomly and mysteriously looks for a floppy disk
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May 23, 2002, 02:11:43 AM »
baka may virus ka!....i never got that any of that message!!!! o di kaya may tama na ang explorer mo!
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phobia
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WinXP randomly and mysteriously looks for a floppy disk
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May 23, 2002, 02:47:46 AM »
It's not a virus and I'm sure. I did a virus scan and it didn't find any virus. (Of course, my virus dat files are up to date)
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dean
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Re: WinXP randomly and mysteriously looks for a floppy disk
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June 10, 2018, 08:29:59 PM »
maybe you need to update virus definitions again? it's already 2018
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