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

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

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)

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

@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

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

using opera 12.17....and please do not recommend the new version. i do not like the new ones. the bookmarks and several other functions i prefer earlier versions.

have not tried opening drive d using opera...when it says error or not, but will and monitor thru process monitor to see what's happening.

this is a new (used computer without opera or other software installed...so cannot be from a previous version.

don't see any reason opera would need to access my dvd drive...or is there i'm not aware of? never heard of a browser, but i also move in limited circles too and for all i know it may have a legit reason, but i don't see any.

thanks for the attempts

did not see any entries to cause that nehavior.

it would seem that opera is somehow enabled to read my dvd drive if disk or not. that is puzzling.

i'm new to win7 and not learned much about it yet.

about the only thing i can think of is i could monitor net connects and processes to try and see a connection to explain it. if it were an exploitable thing would be troublesome, but as of yet sys in clean.

thanks

can someone explain why i sometimes start opera and i get a message about no disk in drive d and insert disk in drive d and the dependency is opera.exe?

i'm using win7 home premium and have no spyware, trojans (unless they hid well), root kits or viruses (nod32).

can someone explain why opera is connected to whether i have a disk in drive d? the message cannot be closed until i put any disk in drive d. it doesn't matter what sort of disk and opera is the dependency.

any ideas? i'm stumped!