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    • mongorish
      mongorish last edited by

      i used a registry cleaner to remove any leftovers that might be there.

      oppref.ini has nothing listed indicating d drive or anything else that could possibly do it..

      the computer was purchased as a refurbished one. no software was installed...only OS and i'm sure it was fresh format and new install for it....so i suppose my only options is sys mon and net mon to see what is going on...problem is it only does it infrequently and i really do not want to pour over sys and net logs if possible.

      thanks for the attempts

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      • A Former User
        A Former User last edited by

        Bit of a long shot, but check the properties of the shortcut that you're using to run Opera.
        Make sure there's no text after "opera.exe" in the "target" field, and that if there is anything in the "start in" field that the path quoted is correct.
        I seem to remember that someone else reported a very similar problem some time ago, in fact it may even have been on the old forum, but I can't remember if it was ever resolved.
        🙂

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        • mongorish
          mongorish last edited by

          @davehawley

          i use tray to execute opera or start menu and almost never the shortcut desktop

          tis is what i checked.....

          checked the desktop shortcut and did not see any pointers.

          checked advanced security setting and found it set to admin/pc user
          nothing checked in effective permissions

          opera properties
          advanced - ready for archiving
          allow contents indexed etc

          shortcut advanced properties
          run in separate memory checked and greyed out

          permissions for opera
          system - all checked but special permissions
          PC User - only special permissions checked
          admin - all checked but special permissions
          interactive - only read and read & execute checked

          no previous versions (clean install of OS)

          don't think there is anything in there to account for it.

          maybe i can find it through internet archive? not sure about just how to search it and even if the opera forum is indexed.

          it has not happened for a while now and guess i will have to wait to do sys checks to see what processes are running to attempt to isolate the causes....other that that? i'm stuck!

          thanks

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          • mongorish
            mongorish last edited by

            found a utube dealing with it....poster disables all messages and it was removed

            regedit
            local machine
            system
            windows
            errors - double click - default set to 0
            set to 1 suppress windows messages
            set to 2 suppress all messages

            utube
            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7khU0ZY9gBU

            i'm going to let it be for now....it's been a while since it happened and if it aint broke? don't fix it!
            🙂

            thanks

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            • mongorish
              mongorish last edited by

              no linking to utube?
              just search for the exact wording of my post question and it will find it.

              he's a gamer
              here's what it said

              regedit
              local machine
              system
              windows
              errors - double click - default set to 0
              set to 1 suppress windows messages
              set to 2 suppress all messages

              utube
              httpwww.youtube.com/watch?v=7khU0ZY9gBU

              (you can do the url fixing)

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              • blackbird71
                blackbird71 last edited by

                found a utube dealing with it....poster disables all messages and it was removed
                regedit
                local machine
                system
                windows
                errors - double click - default set to 0
                set to 1 suppress windows messages
                set to 2 suppress all messages
                ...

                I saw that same information posted in a couple of web forums on the "insert disk" topic. But do be aware that kind of "fix" suppresses all Windows error messages, and that in itself can create or hide a very problematic situation when other kinds of issues occur. It's kind of like running a low-grade fever and simply throwing away your thermometer to "fix" it. Unfortunately, the nature of this kind of problem often leads frustrated users to such measures... 😞

                I do recall this happening a long time ago with another piece of software. In the end, I simply left an unrelated disk in the drive being called out, and that seemed to satisfy whatever was goofy. YMMV.

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                • mongorish
                  mongorish last edited by

                  discovered when it happens or at least i finally noticed it
                  🙂

                  closing opera without a disk gives message and again when i removed the disk and started opera...message again.
                  something is opera dependent. or opera would not be messaged...that seems clear.

                  i'd rather not disable all messages

                  what troubles me is that it might be exploitable. if a browser has access to your d drive....smart people can figure out how to access the others?

                  i'll try a clean remove and registry scan and another install of opera and see if that helps.

                  will also refrain from posting more...unless some resolution is found and why.

                  thanks

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                  • blackbird71
                    blackbird71 last edited by

                    ...
                    what troubles me is that it might be exploitable. if a browser has access to your d drive....smart people can figure out how to access the others?
                    ...

                    Without knowing specifically why a linkage exists between the d: drive and Opera that causes your message, it's not possible to fully know whether or not there could be anything exploitable in the issue. Depending on how the program is installed (or Windows thinks it's installed) and how the program functions, "necessary" supporting files from various places will legitimately be opened and/or copied to memory upon opening a program executable such as Opera. If one of those files is on a d: drive (or the OS "thinks" it is), then when the OS tries to access that drive and can't, an error message will appear that the drive's not ready. That situation does not equate directly to the browser application being able to "access" whatever other files are on that (or some other) drive that actually exists. The (mis?)information causing such a situation already exists in the registry and/or program files, so if an exploit has penetrated that far so as to corrupt those entries, the user has already been pretty badly compromised.

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                    • linuxmint7
                      linuxmint7 last edited by

                      What is your download folder set as ? ('Menu / Settings / Preferences... / Advanced / Downloads / Download folder' bottom of the window).

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                      • A Former User
                        A Former User last edited by

                        Good thought, although that should have shown up in the search of operaprefs.ini if it is the problem as the path to the downloads folder is recorded there.
                        I would do a search of the registry for "D:" and see what comes up.
                        Assuming D:\ is not a very used drive (did the OP say it was a CD drive?) then there shouldn't be too many entries to analyse.
                        If that doesn't throw up anything (an obsolete installation path for instance) then search all the files in the Opera folders for the "D:" string inside them, using the Windows search function.
                        That should show if "D:" is lurking anywhere in any of Opera's configuration files.
                        🙂

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                        • linuxmint7
                          linuxmint7 last edited by

                          @dave, Yeah, I guessed that would be the case, you could say I was clutching at straws. 😃

                          Though it wouldn't hurt to check, just in case.

                          Oh, another thing, Do you have a custom background set for your speed dial (or maybe did have at some point) ?. You could check by clicking the spanner icon in the top right corner of the speed dial page and seeing what file (if any) is referenced in the file text area at the top.

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                          • mongorish
                            mongorish last edited by

                            davehawley

                            that sounds like a good possible...thanks...windows is set to point to d drive in something...everything has to be read by it. (sometimes i wonder tho)

                            linuxmint7

                            speed dial never had a backgound (spartan minimalist)

                            DL folder is standard User folder

                            blackbird71

                            think you are right...something on windows end is pointing to dvd drive...just finding it.
                            comcerns were if access permissions to write (did not see anything i felt of concern in settings) opens inside my firewall and no doubt antivirus...as it has permissions. again, i did not see anthing in permissions of red flag. it would make a nice sys entry tho, but it seems rare....and maybe it's targeted solely for me and my alien brothers studying your species?

                            🙂

                            thanks

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                            • smeetech
                              smeetech last edited by

                              I had the same issue. I found a Newegg cookie that had "d:", but it was not a drive indicator. Opera must have misread it as a link which caused the error. Hope this helps someone.

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