"ksirul" wrote in message news:0dc755a5-def3-4bef-b9c5-8da1946fe23f... Z800 windows 7. Computer is extremely sluggish and slow. I have a mysterious drive in Computer called " Local Drive (Q:). It does NOT show up under Disk Management. I don't have permission or access to this drive even though I am a computer administrator. The Properties on this drive show 0 Bytes Free and 0Bytes full. How can I get rid of this? This is the result of having the free version of Office 2010 installed. http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2010-office_install/why-is-office-trying-to-install-to-the-q-drive/10c7fed0-d7eb-403c-b03c-6713d9e376e1 Noel Paton | Nil Carborundum Illegitemi | CrashFixPC | The Three-toed Sloth

"ksirul" wrote in message news:0dc755a5-def3-4bef-b9c5-8da1946fe23f... Z800 windows 7. Computer is extremely sluggish and slow. I have a mysterious drive in Computer called " Local Drive (Q:). It does NOT show up under Disk Management. I don't have permission or access to this drive even though I am a computer administrator. The Properties on this drive show 0 Bytes Free and 0Bytes full. How can I get rid of this? This is the result of having the free version of Office 2010 installed. http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2010-office_install/why-is-office-trying-to-install-to-the-q-drive/10c7fed0-d7eb-403c-b03c-6713d9e376e1 Noel Paton | Nil Carborundum Illegitemi | CrashFixPC | The Three-toed Sloth

Z800 windows 7. Computer is extremely sluggish and slow. I have a mysterious drive in Computer called " Local Drive (Q:). It does NOT show up under Disk Management. I don't have permission or access to this drive even though I am a computer administrator. The Properties on this drive show 0 Bytes Free and 0Bytes full. How can I get rid of this?

Do you have the Microsoft Application Virtualisation Client installed? Check under Programs in the Control Panel. Q: drive is used as a virtual placeholder for App-V content - it doesn't harm the machine in any way and you definitely don't want to try and delete it.