Clicking on C Drive Icon plays Windows music

Tlab5_44 · 01-28-2003, 09:26 AM

When I try to open the my C drive it plays the windows sound and has a Microsoft windows puzzle icon above the CD icon.

I have Win 98se

Why would this be?

Baud · 01-28-2003, 10:34 AM

Could you elaborate on this? I cannot see the relation between your CD icon and your C drive.

By the way... search for an AUTORUN.INF in C:\

CaptainMajic · 01-28-2003, 10:37 AM

LOL!

sorry I could'nt help it!

blt_abx · 01-28-2003, 10:41 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Baud
Could you elaborate on this? I cannot see the relation between your CD icon and your C drive.

Please elaborate.

You can unassociate sounds with system events by going into control panel, double-clicking the "sounds" icon and selecting "none" as the sound associated with the specific event.

Tlab5_44 · 01-28-2003, 10:47 AM

I didnt think it was that funny of a question. Nerve of some people makes this worl what it is.

I goto My Documents and My computer and see the listed drives, when I cleck on C:/ to open it , it plays the windows logon sound

I have to click explore to navigate through it.

traveler · 01-28-2003, 10:49 AM

Sounds like you blew out some registry setting somewhere. You better restore your registry as quickly as possible if you have the win98se default number of registry backups. Copy the registry backup files to another directory first before you lose any of them.

traveler · 01-28-2003, 10:58 AM

Just to let you know, I changed the win98se default number of automatic registry backups of 5 to 999. That's a little over 2 and a half years of registry backups. Am I paranoid about my registry or what?

borodar · 01-28-2003, 11:03 AM

"...and has a Microsoft windows puzzle icon above the CD icon..."
i would love to see this screenshot

edit: presuming it wasn't there before lol :tide

Baud · 01-28-2003, 11:04 AM

If you really were paranoid, I guess you wouldn't run Win98

blt_abx · 01-28-2003, 11:04 AM

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Originally posted by traveler
Just to let you know, I changed the win98se default number of automatic registry backups of 5 to 999. That's a little over 2 and a half years of registry backups. Am I paranoid about my registry or what?

Yes! You're paranoid!

FYI - I changed mine to 50. Don't have as many HDD's as you! :eek:

traveler · 01-28-2003, 11:13 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by blt
Yes! You're paranoid!

FYI - I changed mine to 50. Don't have as many HDD's as you! :eek:

lol

Yep, my WD1200JB 'c' drive filled up with rb files.

blt_abx · 01-28-2003, 11:34 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by traveler
lol Yep, my WD1200JB 'c' drive filled up with rb files.

I know. We've already had this conversation.

Quote:

Originally posted by Baud
If you really were paranoid, I guess you wouldn't run Win98

At least there's not 500 background services trying to phone home!

Tlab5_44, you made any progress toward a fix?

Tlab5_44 · 01-28-2003, 12:38 PM

After I did a format 3 weeks ago this happened.

Attached is the pic

I still cannot figure out what is wrong

How do I get my hard drive split into c:/ and d:/ drives

It is a 30g WD

Do I have to reformat and partion b4 windows install?

borodar · 01-28-2003, 01:18 PM

hm... that "MS Puzzle" looks like MS Office logo... hm... could it be that installation of it went wrong?

"...How do I get my hard drive split into c:/ and d:/ drives..."

when u install os, it gives u option of selecting drive and deleting\creating partitions... my hdd is devided into 3 partitions: 3G for os, 3G for installed programs and third is whatever left from first two.

but i have w2k pro, size of w98 is ... what... 3 times less? so in your place i'd reformat, create os partition of 1G (used ONLY for w98 files), 3G for programs and 3-rd one as a left-over for storage and such.

small partitions allow faster ScanDisk error checking...

blt_abx · 01-28-2003, 01:24 PM

You could have created two partitions using FDISK from the Win98SE startup disk before installing the OS.
Since you have installed the OS, if you wish to avoid a total reformat/reinstall you will need third party software such as Partition Magic to split the drive.

BTW - I seem to recall that Windows reserves drive letter D & E for optical drives if such drives are installed. Meaning you would probably want your HDD to be C & F.
Check into to this before splitting your drive. Windows will ocassionaly do some funny things with drive letter assignments.

01-28-2003, 09:26 AM	#1
Tlab5_44 Registered User Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 9	Clicking on C Drive Icon plays Windows music When I try to open the my C drive it plays the windows sound and has a Microsoft windows puzzle icon above the CD icon. I have Win 98se Why would this be?
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01-28-2003, 10:34 AM	#2
Baud Member LOL Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Brussels, Belgium Posts: 936	Could you elaborate on this? I cannot see the relation between your CD icon and your C drive. By the way... search for an AUTORUN.INF in C:\
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01-28-2003, 10:47 AM	#5
Tlab5_44 Registered User Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 9	I didnt think it was that funny of a question. Nerve of some people makes this worl what it is. I goto My Documents and My computer and see the listed drives, when I cleck on C:/ to open it , it plays the windows logon sound I have to click explore to navigate through it.
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01-28-2003, 10:49 AM	#6
traveler Where to next? Join Date: May 2001 Location: South Florida Posts: 18,226	Sounds like you blew out some registry setting somewhere. You better restore your registry as quickly as possible if you have the win98se default number of registry backups. Copy the registry backup files to another directory first before you lose any of them.
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01-28-2003, 10:58 AM	#7
traveler Where to next? Join Date: May 2001 Location: South Florida Posts: 18,226	Just to let you know, I changed the win98se default number of automatic registry backups of 5 to 999. That's a little over 2 and a half years of registry backups. Am I paranoid about my registry or what?
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01-28-2003, 11:03 AM	#8
borodar Resigned Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: CO, Denver Posts: 2,593	"...and has a Microsoft windows puzzle icon above the CD icon..." i would love to see this screenshot edit: presuming it wasn't there before lol :tide __________________ P4S8X , PSU , RAID , XP SP2
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01-28-2003, 11:04 AM	#9
Baud Member LOL Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Brussels, Belgium Posts: 936	If you really were paranoid, I guess you wouldn't run Win98
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01-28-2003, 01:24 PM	#15
blt_abx Registered User Join Date: May 2001 Location: Memphis, TN USA Posts: 1,089	You could have created two partitions using FDISK from the Win98SE startup disk before installing the OS. Since you have installed the OS, if you wish to avoid a total reformat/reinstall you will need third party software such as Partition Magic to split the drive. BTW - I seem to recall that Windows reserves drive letter D & E for optical drives if such drives are installed. Meaning you would probably want your HDD to be C & F. Check into to this before splitting your drive. Windows will ocassionaly do some funny things with drive letter assignments.
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