FINDFAST.EXE

[Andy Belknap]

When this is running in the background XP performance
degrades. Any ideas?

 

[P Mossel]

When FINDFAST is running in the background XP
performance

degrades. Any ideas?

The FIND FAST search engine is installed and used by
Microsoft Office 2000, Office 97, but not by Office XP.
In the earlier office versions, an application would be
installed in the Control Panel with the binocular icon.

On W2000 and XP, the "Indexing Service" is available as a
system service independent of Office. You can enable or
disable it under "Services and Applications." Once the
Indexing Service is enabled, the XP "Search" program can
do its job faster.

Obviously, it does not make too much sense to have both.
You should probably disable it from Office and enable it
in XP if you really need it.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

Get rid of it.

Overview of Find Fast Indexer
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;205289

How to Turn Off the Find Fast Indexer
http://support.microsoft.com/directory/article.asp?ID=kb;en-us;Q199787


Bruce Chambers

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