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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-pen-15.sprintlink.net!news.seanet.com!news From: giznaz@seanet.com Newsgroups: alt.sys.pc-clone.acer,alt.sys.pc-clone.compaq,alt.sys.pc-clone.dell,alt.sys.pc-clone.gateway2000,alt.sys.pc-clone.micron,alt.sys.pc-clone.midwest-micro,alt.sys.pc-clone.zeos,biz.marketplace.computers.pc-clone,comp.bugs.4bsd,comp.bugs.misc,comp.b Subject: Re: Computer always searches A: Drive? Date: Mon, 07 Apr 1997 01:41:33 GMT Organization: Seanet Online Services, Seattle WA Lines: 33 Message-ID: <33485058.13173841@news.seanet.com> References: <01bc3e02$9b424700$b6742399@marc-s-laptop> <01bc3fdb$a7d25b60$2d0ccfa9@ripperm.execpc.com> <33482954.5AA2@bright.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: giznaz.seanet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99g/32.339 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.sys.pc-clone.acer:2412 alt.sys.pc-clone.dell:18813 alt.sys.pc-clone.gateway2000:73661 alt.sys.pc-clone.micron:18831 alt.sys.pc-clone.zeos:4333 biz.marketplace.computers.pc-clone:30301 comp.bugs.4bsd:2174 comp.bugs.misc:1694 On Sun, 06 Apr 1997 18:53:08 -0400, Mark <cps@bright.net> wrote: >> Marc Stayman <jeramiah@earthlink.net> wrote in article >> <01bc3e02$9b424700$b6742399@marc-s-laptop>... >> I have this deviling problem and I need some help. I run among other >> things WP 6.1 (16 bit) and Office 95 and whenever I goto file open, the >> computer trys to open the A:\ drive. Of course there is nothing there so I >> have to wait several seconds while it tries. Even if there is a diskette >> in the drive it goes to look. Even if the last file I opened was on the >> C:\ drive, it goes to the A:\ Drive. Even when the default drive in File >> Open is the C:\ is looks to A:\ First. This happens in WordPerfect, and >> Excel. It also searches the drive when I use Netscape or when I load a new >> page in Netscape. I have seen other computers do this but have never >> figured out why. I suspect WP has something to do with it as well. If you >> have figured out how to fix this, please drop me an email. Thanks. > >I run Hijaak 95, and once you read anything from the >"A" drive, it will forever search the "A" drive trying >to find files to update it's catalog with. The catalog >turns icons into representations of the file that the >icon is for. > >There is no fix for this problem in HiJaak, they said >to buy the new version. > >-- >//=================================================================\\ >|| cps@bright.net |||| ** Please don't send SPAM my direction ** || >|| Custom Printing Solutions : http://www.bright.net/~cps || >\\=================================================================// I found a preferences dialog in WP, that allows you to set files location. This sort of thing doesn't sem to happen on all the net'ed PC's at work, but I don't know if the dialogs are set differently