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Find fast.exe Tip |
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Tip I noticed that after installing Office 97 on my computer running Windows NT 4, my hard drive would often just start going crazy without warning. This usually happened when I was browsing the Web and hadn't touched the keyboard in a while. When I brought up the Task Manager, I noticed two instances of something called "Findfast.exe." I knew that the Findfast program was part of Microsoft Office, but wasn't sure why it was making my hard disk go crazy. After some research, I found that the Findfast utility is controlled by a Control Panel "Findfast" icon. It defaults on indexing your C: drive for Office documents, supposedly to speed up document searches. Since I never used this feature, I shut off the indexing by selecting Index/Delete Index from the Findfast control. Now my hard drive only crunches when I expect it to, not to update an index that I never use. You can shut of the Office 95 version of Findfast in the same way. Alternately, you can disable the Office 95 version by removing it from the "Startup" group. Office 97 Findfast is not placed in the startup group, and may require altering the registry to kill it off. I found the easiest and safest thing to do to disable it was to delete the indexing process from drive C:. Pre-Office 95 versions of Microsoft Office (such as Office 4.3) don't include the Findfast utility. |
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