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How to Install and Run Regclean

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32 bit Cyclic Redundancy Check Source Code for C++

Floppy Drive Access Bug

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April 2008 Symptom 1: The floppy drive light comes on randomly and you can hear the drive head searching even if there is no disk in the drive. Symptom 2: The floppy drive is queried excessively during shutdown or reboot. Symptom 3: The floppy drive is queried excessively as Windows starts up. Possible solution 1: One of the most common causes of excessive floppy drive queries is a PIF shortcut pointing to the floppy drive. A PIF shortcut is one that points to a DOS program while an LNK shortcut points to a Windows program.  For your convenience, I've written a simple Windows 95/98 freeware program that will automatically find such shortcuts. Download PIFfer.zip (62,165 bytes). Just unzip and double-click the executable. You can delete it when you're done and save the ZIP file in case you ever need it again. Explorer doesn't normally show the PIF or LNK extensions for shortcuts, but you can find them manually with the Win95 Find applet, as described below. Open the Find applet and enter *.PIF in the "Named:" field. Use the Browse button to select your Windows directory. Check "Include subdirectories." Click on the Advanced tab and enter either A: or B: in the "Containing text:" field. Click on the Find Now button. If it finds any shortcuts in the Windows\Desktop or any folder in the Windows\Start Menu structure, that shortcut is probably causing the problem. The remedy is to delete or move the shortcuts to a directory other than the Desktop or Start Menu folder structure. Here are some conditions that instigate floppy drive accesses; For PIF shortcuts with Command line: A:\ move shortcut from another directory to the desktop or start menu array (its subfolders) press F5 while shortcut is selected in any folder first time the folder containing the shortcut is opened when the shortcut is deleted right click on the shortcut click OK on the shortcut property window when windows starts and the shortcut is on the desktop or in the start menu array when Explorer updates ALL of the shortcuts on the Desktop and Start Menu at random For LNK shortcuts with Command line: A:\filename.ext right click on the shortcut click OK on the shortcut property window For LNK shortcuts with Command line: A:\  (The least problematic way to reference a floppy drive) click OK on the shortcut property window Here are the safe places for floppy PIFs and LNKs to a file on floppy a subfolder of the desktop any subfolder other than desktop or start menu array Possible solution 2: The problem may be caused by anti-virus software, such as McAfee's VShield and Norton Anti-Virus Auto-Protect. For McAfee Vshield: right-click an icon from the Taskbar and select "Properties" under "Scan Floppies On" from "Detection" tab uncheck the "Shutdown" box. For Norton AntiVirus Auto-protect: right-click an icon from the Taskbar and select "Options" click "Advance" button and under the "Check floppies" uncheck the "Check floppies when reboot computer" box. Solution 2 contributed by Frank Tran. Possible solution 3: I ran across your web page and noticed the Unnecessary Floppy Access fixes and having fought this battle and Won, so I thought I'd add what I found. One place is under system > performance > file system > floppy un-check search for a floppy each time windows starts. But the Biggey, at least for me was, with tape drive backup SW installed there are 3 VXD's installed. If you run iosubsys from run you will see a list of VXD's. Unless you have a floppy/parallel port tape drive you should rename DRVWQ117.VXD and DRVWPPQT.VXD to .OLD as these sniff the floppy/printer ports causing the floppy access at startup. Another way is to search the Reg and *.INI files for references to these but the renaming is quicker. And Never access anything from W95/98 to a floppy, copy to a HD first. Solution 3 contributed by Brad Bucca. If you find this information useful, please make a donation just a dollar would help Create Window Home Page | Win Info PC Magazine Utilities and source code written by -RAE- ClipTrak Clipboard Organizer DaysEase Calendar This page is located online at: Floppy Drive Access Bug Copyright © 2000 - 2008 Richard A. Ellingson