Strange unit in the filemanager?

[Marjo]

Hi

Im confused. For some reason I dont know ther is a strange unit poping up in the file manger. It is called (W and has the icon of a wordpad document. It alwas shows up after the sound of the HDD working (higher then normally).
When I try to click the unit I get a message "the folder has been removed, not accessible".

Why is this folder showing up? I have perf several antivirus scans with diffrent programs.

Marie

 

[SESaskDFC]

Howdy Marie:

As per Tips and Tricks..

When you use Windows Explorer, the icons for Control Panel and Printers may be changed to a Microsoft WordPad icon and their names may be changed to Drive W:. When you double-click either of these icons, you may receive the following error message:


W:\ is not accessible.

This folder was moved or removed.

This is a rather harmless bug, and seems to be related to the combination of Internet Explorer 5.x and Microsoft Office.

Hitting F5 (refresh) or clicking Refresh on the View menu in Windows Explorer should restore the normal view.

Murray

 

[johnsonm]

This happened to me also back when I was using win98. I'm not sure why it's happening, but I think it may have something do to with Office (I was using office xp at the time).

You may want to reinstall office and do a custom install- just install the things you need- see if that works.

But then again, its just more of an annoyance than anything else- and if it is not broken, then do not fix it. =P
-Mike Johnson

 

[Marjo]

Howdy, howdy

Thanks for your answers and help.

This started actually after I have changed back to IE 5
from IE 6.

Feels great its a harmless bug, I thought It was
some strange things going on like a backdoor or anything similar (but it would have been detected after using 4 different virus tools was my thought).

thanks again,

Marie [Sunshine]