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How to Stop Floppy Drive from Turning On When Shutting Down?



 
 
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Old May 15th 05, 12:42 AM
Von Fourche
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Default How to Stop Floppy Drive from Turning On When Shutting Down?


I'm running Windows ME. When I shut my computer off the floppy drive
runs for a few seconds. I know it's supposed to do that when I start my
computer but how do I stop it from doing that when I shut down?


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Old May 15th 05, 03:04 AM
Tom Scales
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I'd bet you're running Norton. If so, change the Norton config to not check
for a floppy on shutdown.

Tom
"Von Fourche" wrote in message
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I'm running Windows ME. When I shut my computer off the floppy drive
runs for a few seconds. I know it's supposed to do that when I start my
computer but how do I stop it from doing that when I shut down?




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Old May 15th 05, 03:38 AM
Von Fourche
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"Tom Scales" wrote in message
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I'd bet you're running Norton. If so, change the Norton config to not

check
for a floppy on shutdown.



I'm running McAfee. I can't find how to turn the floppy scan off. I'm
running the newest verion of McAlfee 9.1


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Old May 15th 05, 03:47 PM
Nicholas D Richards
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In article , Von
Fourche writes

"Tom Scales" wrote in message
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I'd bet you're running Norton. If so, change the Norton config to not

check
for a floppy on shutdown.



I'm running McAfee. I can't find how to turn the floppy scan off. I'm
running the newest verion of McAlfee 9.1



I also run Mcafee and get the same behaviour. It is what I would
expect. Its function is to protect against boot virus's on when booting
if a floppy has been accidentally left in the floppy drive.

I would not want to switch this off and on my ME system it takes less
than a second to test the drive.
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