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Top Document: Win95 FAQ Part 9 of 14: Maintanence Previous Document: 9.8. How do I stop the constant floppy drive access? Next Document: 9.10. How do I set up user profiles so I can keep my own desktop clean? See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge Win95's CDFS auto-detects disks when inserted, so Explorer can properly update the drive and folder windows. It also looks for an AutoPlayer on the disk (autoplay.inf) and will launch it. Because of this continuous checking, the CD-ROM drive light will flash. If it's an IDE drive, your HD light will flash along with it. You could use real mode CD-ROM drivers and MSCDEX instead, but this leads to very pathetic performance. I would say ignore it and don't worry, because this auto-detect takes about 0% processor time. But if you insist on being annoyed by it: Bring up My Computer/Properties and select Device Manager. Bring up properties for the CD-ROM drive, and turn off "Auto-Insert Notification". This is also advisable for CD-ROM changer owners, otherwise it will scan all of your platters when you insert the cartridge. Maybe turn it on for the first platter and leave it off for the rest; CD-ROM changers show up as multiple drives, because each platter has its own SCSI LUN ID. TweakUI also lets you turn off autoplay, but it does not stop auto-insert notification, so it won't have any effect on this annoyance. User Contributions:Top Document: Win95 FAQ Part 9 of 14: Maintanence Previous Document: 9.8. How do I stop the constant floppy drive access? Next Document: 9.10. How do I set up user profiles so I can keep my own desktop clean? Part1 - Part2 - Part3 - Part4 - Part5 - Part6 - Part7 - Part8 - Part9 - Part10 - Part11 - Part12 - Part13 - Part14 - Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: gordonf@intouch.bc.ca
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