Thank you very much for the thought Andrew, its much appreciated. Yes, we have Viruscan 4.5.1 on win9x machines. I did test disabling the AV software. This did not change the behaviour of the local floppy disk drive which still tried to either check if a floppy disk is present or retrieve data from files on the disk. Im not in a position to say with 100% confidence that this is an "OS" thingy, but tests so far are leaning towards our builds of 9x having something included that is the root cause of the issue. (Yes, we are running viruscan 8 on the 2k/xp machines which dont have the same problem). Joe >>> dogers@xxxxxxxxx 25/01/2006 16:36 >>> On 25/01/06, Joe Grainger <JAG@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Running tests on an XP SP2 PC, with program neighbourhood v9.150, no floppy drive scans. Browsing "My Computer" on a 9x client with v9.150 of program neighbourhood, the floppy drive is scanned. Are you sure its an OS thing?? We have exactly the same thing - Win95 clients use Virusscan 4.5.1 which scans *floppies* on access, whereas 2k/xp use Virusscan 7.1, which scans *files* on access. Just a thought! Andrew ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: http://www.star.net.uk ________________________________________________________________________ Hazlewoods LLP - Chartered Accountants and Business Advisers Offices in Cheltenham Tel 01242 237661, Gloucester Tel 01452 634800 and Staverton Tel 01242 680000. Members: Harvey Grove FCA FCCA Andrew Brookes FCA CF Jon Cartwright FCCA ATII TEP Nick Dee ACA Tony Flambard FCCA David Granger FCA FCCA Jonathan Harvie FCA David Main FCCA Christopher Mourton FCCA David Pierce FCA FCCA Adrian Randle FCA FCCA TEP Graham Rew FCA Philip Swan FCA ATII Norman Webber FCCA CF David Williams FCA Website www.hazlewoods.co.uk. Registered by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales to carry out company audit work. Authorised and Regulated by the Financial Services Authority. Registered in England. Partnership No: OC311817 ************************************************************************ DISCLAIMER: The contents of this Email and attachments are confidential to the ordinary user(s) of the Email address(es) to which it was sent and may be legally privileged. Hazlewoods LLP accepts no responsibility for the content of this Email, or the actions taken on the basis of the information provided, unless that information is subsequently agreed in writing. ************************************************************************