[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #55584] "There is no disk in the drive. " error message displayed after returning from sleep in Windows 8.1 x64

[anonymous]

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #55584 (project octave):

Hello, Philip.

Yes, the message showed up post-installation.  

Your analysis about the message being displayed by the Windows OS (about
Octave), rather than generated by Octave itself sounds reasonable. 

_"The only thing I can imagine [...] is that during installation you allowed
Octave to access on-line info about updates etc."_ — I don't recall
clicking/unclicking any option about this.  Is there actually any option about
this?  
FWIW, I ran the installer from octave_4-4-1-w64_installer.exe (slightly
renamed file).  In other words from the EXE, not ZIP or building from source
or whatever.  

_"In Edit | Preferences, Network tab, be sure to uncheck [...]"_ — I had
checked my Preferences for any reference to F: already.  
I have just checked again for the Network preferences, and can confirm that
nothing was ticked.  "Use Octave to connect [...] to display current news and
information" was not ticked, and "Use proxy server" was not ticked. 
(Everything else is greyed out.)  I have not made any changes to those
settings.  
BTW, during installation I was asked whether I wanted to receive news and so
forth (which I would have recalled to have been via email, but maybe it was
through the application itself), and I definitely selected 'no' to that.  
I'm not sure about your reference to updates.  A lot of software polls
the/server regularly for possible updates, and often that's user-configurable:
 e.g. allow/disallow, frequency of checking, action upon discovering update. 
I cannot see anything in the Octave settings about "updates".  

Under the "File Browser" tab in Preferences I do have "Synchronise Octave
working directory with file browser" ticked (by default).  

Besides the Windows 8.1 x64 built-in internet capabilities, I also have a
separate widget (from Vodafone) that I am pretty sure is x32 and possibly
written for Windows Vista or something like that originally.  It seems to run
OK, but had displayed a warning at one stage about not being written for
Windows 8.1.  

My File Explorer instances sometime occupies a whole CPU core:  generally when
I'm reconnecting to the internet.  

So, yes, it's plausible that this could be due to some buggy driver on my
system.  If so, then sorry to 'bug' you :-)
I may have been too quick to point the finger at Octave, although that was
based upon the error message I saw.  

—DIV

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