> It certainly is. Floppy disc access is in fact the only part of QPC > that needs completely independent code for 9x/ME and NT/2000/XP. The > reason being that while NT/2000/XP incorporate a proper floppy driver > 9x/ME only uses a wrapper for the BIOS calls. The only "advantage" is > that QPC1 and QPC2 for 9x share almost exactly the same floppy code... > > Having said this I wouldn't rule out that it might be a BIOS problem.
Knowing this PC, that is entirely possible. However, I find it odd that this only happens when using certain M$ programs to browse files. The usual suspects of Windows Exploder, net programs and older graphics programs have no effect, it seems to be just Windoze programs related to M$ Orifice in some way. We do use M$ Office at work but it's a Windoze 2000 system and different version of M$ office, so the same parameters don't apply. After a few minutes experimenting, Phoebus's suggestion of removing the Office 97 item from the Startup menu seems to have cleared the problem, I'll keep an eye on it. Thanks guys. -- Dilwyn Jones
