Mysterious local disk Q: | The Coffeehouse

Sven Groot
My name has 9 letters. Coincidence? I think not...

For no reason that I can think up, I suddenly have a local disk Q: in Explorer. There is no hardware associated with it, it doesn't show up in Disk Manager, it's not a network drive, and everything I try to do with it results in "access denied". Yet it stubbornly persists.

Any idea how I can find out what it is, where it came from, and how to get rid of it?

EDIT: Windows 7 x64 Ultimate RTM

Sven Groot
My name has 9 letters. Coincidence? I think not...

Never mind, I've figured it out. Apparently Office 2010 Click-to-Run is responsible for it. Still weird, hope the final won't have that as it'll confuse a lot of people.

figuerres
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In reply to Sven Groot

#Oct 13th @ 5:23 AM

Yeah that does sound like a thing that will / might throw many folks ... I might have said start looking for a virus or a root kit or some such... glad to hear it was nothing like that. Smiley

By the way I just saw the video you did on ch9 and i found one comment very interesting.

i also find many things intersting and sometimes it's hard for me to "keep on track" in fact i would say that is my worst flaw... at times.

sooo many things, sooo little time!

PerfectPhase
"This is not war, this is pest control!" - Dalek to Cyberman

In reply to Sven Groot

#Oct 13th @ 5:23 AM

Looks like Office 2010 might be using App-V (softgrid) under the covers then.

Charles
Welcome Change

In reply to PerfectPhase

#Oct 13th @ 9:30 AM

Yes. This is true.

C

ZippyV
Fired Up

In reply to PerfectPhase

#Oct 13th @ 9:30 AM

What's all this? What am I missing?

BubbaHyde

Hey Sven, I'm running XP and had the same "local drive Q:" suddenly apperar after installing Office 2010. I used TweakUI, clicked on My Computer in the list, and selected drives. I then "unchecked" the Q on the list. That damn "Q" went away. Maybe it'll help you 2. Reguards, BubbaHyde

fknight

Any idea how I can find out what it is, where it came from, and how to get rid of it?

It came from the Q continuum, of course.

JoA41

In reply to BubbaHyde

#Oct 18th @ 9:22 AM

Do you know if there is a similar ability in Win 7 to uncheck drives you don't want to see? I knew where to uncheck drives in Vista, but can't find it in windows 7. Does unchecking the drive affect the application or does Office 2010 run normally with Q? Thanks!