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Firefox and floppy disk

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Mwesten
Mwesten
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I have Win7 64bit and Firefox 32.0.1 After the last update every time i open a site or i go back to site the floppy drives light open and the drive start working without even have a disk on. Due to this pages load slower. I havent use a disk on the drive for 2-3 years now and i always save things in my local drive. Is there any fix for that?

I have Win7 64bit and Firefox 32.0.1 After the last update every time i open a site or i go back to site the floppy drives light open and the drive start working without even have a disk on. Due to this pages load slower. I havent use a disk on the drive for 2-3 years now and i always save things in my local drive. Is there any fix for that?

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kenkon
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If you really never use the floppy drive, you could try disabling it completely in Windows:

1. Search for "Device Manager" in the Start menu. 2. Click on "Device Manager" to open it. 3. Find your Floppy Drive in the list. 4. Double-click it to show its properties. 5. Click "Change settings" button. 6. Enter your administrator password if prompted. 7. Select "Driver" tab. 8. Click "Disable" button. 9. Might need to reboot, or not.

Caution! Make sure that you do NOT disable any other device than the floppy drive.

Note: If you ever need to re-enable it, follow the same instructions, replacing "Disable" by "Enable" in step 8.

Alternatively, you can disable the Floppy Drive in the BIOS but that will not be necessary if the above instructions fixed your problem.

the-edmeister
the-edmeister
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See if clearing the Downloads cache in Firefox helps. { Ctrl + J } then use the Clear Downloads button.