" Find Fast "

V

VS

Would like to know if anyone has any comments, pro and
con, regarding having windows xp find fast enabled or
disabled. I just discoverd that by deleting the find fast
log, some programs popped up much faster. Just
coincedence ?????
Any comments would be appreciated. Thanks.
 
D

dev

VS said:
Would like to know if anyone has any comments, pro and
con, regarding having windows xp find fast enabled or
disabled. I just discovered that by deleting the find fast
log, some programs popped up much faster. Just
coincidence ?????

FIND FAST has been generally credited with bogging down the PC. It won't
hurt to disable it. Open the Applet in Control Panel. Click the FILE
menu. Close and Stop it.
 
G

GSV Three Minds in a Can

from the wonderful person said:
Greetings --

Find Fast is an ill-conceived "feature" of Microsoft Office that
has a long history of causing problems and slowing the performance of
the computer.

Yeah, it worked so badly for so many people that MS decided to embed it
in WinXP as 'Content Indexing Service', where it can now screw things up
for people who haven't even bought Office. 8>.
 
K

Kenny

I thought FindFast had been dropped in Office XP and now see it's just
renamed to Indexing Service. How do I turn it off in Office XP? I know it
caused CD burning problems when I was using Win98 and Office 97.
 
L

L. A. Powell

In Windows Explorer, right click on each hard drive icon, select
Properties, uncheck indexing service at the bottom of the General tab
page.


Kenny said:
I thought FindFast had been dropped in Office XP and now see it's just
renamed to Indexing Service. How do I turn it off in Office XP? I know it
caused CD burning problems when I was using Win98 and Office 97.
 
G

GSV Three Minds in a Can

from the wonderful said:
I thought FindFast had been dropped in Office XP and now see it's just
renamed to Indexing Service. How do I turn it off in Office XP? I know it
caused CD burning problems when I was using Win98 and Office 97.

There is a tick-box on each disk volume/partition (pick your own term)
properties page - at least the NTFS ones - which you can un-tick to stop
that volume getting indexed. You can then start, run, services.msc and
set the content indexing service to 'stopped' and 'disabled'. That will
hold it for a while.
8>.
 
J

Jeff Malka

1. But when you do this on the XP system partition (logical drive), a
message
appears for certain files saying that they could not be modifiied. Is that
a problem?

2. How do you turn it off in Office 97?
 

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