From: "Glenn Meadows" 

I have one displayed non-existent USB Memory stick, that is
"sticky" in My Computer.  Haven't been able to remove it from the
display.  When I insert another one, it shows up as a new drive letter.

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Glenn M.
"Frank Haber"  wrote in message
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> The saga continues:
>
> 1. On the desktop machine, other permissions things were evidently afoot.
> Uninstalling a trial version of Ewido brought true cardiac arrest - upon
> the required reboot, the machine booted through into Administrator (no pw
> prompt), and I began to get the deadly (IE6 establishing preferences,
> etc.) box you get on a new machine.  But the gods were kind.  My main
> profile was fine.  I quickly copied same to a dummy and went on with life.
>
> 2. Back to the slowdown.  Through its life, off and on, SEVEN USB and fw
> external HDs have been attached to this Dell - drives E: through K:.  Some
> had indexing service enabled.  The sys eventlog showed a 30 second timeout
> or two waiting for cisvc, apparently on drives that weren't there.
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/833228/en-us
>
> seems to say that SP2 should have fixed this - my QUERY.DLL is later than
> the one in the hotfix.  But noooooo.*  I luckily had all the HDs in
> question here this week.  I hubbed up, plugged all in, and made sure
> indexing was off on all.
>
> Things are MUCH better now on boot.  More later.  Hey. maybe this machine
> will make it through another year without a rollback or reformat.
>
> *(or perhaps my boot problem was only distantly related to "removable
> memory," whatever that is.  I've only seen the 100% CPU leak thing a
> couple of times, and I'm not sure on which machine.  In any case, a forest
> of ever-changing external HDs is probably a dubious idea on XP at present.
> Sorry, Adam.)

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