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[A] drive checks for disk when renaming/deleting files on [C] drive

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soas

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Aug 3, 2001
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About half of the times I try to change a file's (in the C drive) name or delete it or move it, it checks to see if there is a disk in the A drive, and I dont like that. I know its not normally supposed to do that.. I've been trying to think of things that might be causing it, I use windows 98, I havent used my A drive in over a month and I know it used to check for a disk when I shutdown or rebooted, but that was Norton Antivirus and I turned that off.. I dont know if this also is Norton or something else.. I had used windows 98's disk compression about a month and a half ago on a disk in the A drive.. I dont know if that has anything to do with it. I dont know.. it happens just enough to annoy me but not quite enough to pick up any kind of particular pattern.. Does anyone know what might be causing this?
 
Try not to do other than download the occasional file from the floppy.
Saving to the floppy or starting something from it (rather than just downloading it to the computer and THEN opening it) puts it in the recent documents list (MRU) and sometimes triggers unwanted "asks" from it. This is kept up to a certain amount of times (13 or 15?)and eventually replaced by other MORE recent docs.
Try right-clicking the task bar and choose Properties/Start Menu Programs tab and hit the clear tab to see.
It may help
 
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