Cereates a removable disk at startup in Vista.

Recently my PC has created a removable K whenever I start my computer.  If I try to open it from MY COMPUTER, I get a message saying to the effect that I need to load something in this drive to open it.  I can run the functionality safely REMOVE and disable drive K and he remains missing until the next time I re - start my computer.  So far it has not seem to affect all programs running on my PC, nor is he blocked me to use other removable drives.  I thought that maybe I had a few malware but I run Kaspersky Internet Security with a malware remover and after a scan it shows nothing on my PC.

Like I said has not seemed to affect the operation of my PC it's more discomfort.

Any chance that you have recently connected a printer with a flash media player?  It is possible that the drivers for the printer set up a drive letter for this media player.

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