FindFast running for ever !

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I think FindFast is a MSOffice tool to help find files faster. I believe
that you can turn it off in Control Panel. I used to have Office 97(not with
your prob though). And I had with it FindFast.

HTH,
jkb

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Steve Walton wrote:
> A couple of times in recent weeks, FINDFAST is running and using up
> all spare cpu
>
> I left it once, 10-15 minutes still going - had to terminate process
>
> any ideas why this shoudl happen, and what can I do to prevent it
> happening.
>
> (Running Win98 SE)

Doubleclick the FastFind icon in the Control pannel and tell it to stop
and quit. Then go to the Start menu > Programs > Startup and remove the
link to "FastFind" from there.

This should make it stop.

P.S.: To disable FastFind is one of the top priorities in the guidelines
for setting up computers in our corporal network at where I work. Don't
feel bad about killing it, it's a useless little troublemaker and it
should be done away with as soon as possible.

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On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 11:54:01 +0100, Steve Walton
<sj_walton@nothotmail.com> wrote:

>A couple of times in recent weeks, FINDFAST is running and using up
>all spare cpu
>
>I left it once, 10-15 minutes still going - had to terminate process
>
>any ideas why this shoudl happen, and what can I do to prevent it
>happening.
>
>(Running Win98 SE)
>
thanks for replies, I don't think I had FF installed completely
which may explain why it never ran to completion

Odd that it didn't run for ever every time I rebooted ?


Steve

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Disable it in Control Panel or rerun Office Setup and remove it.

OFF97: How to Disable the Find Fast Indexer
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q158705/

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In microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion, Steve Walton
<sj_walton@nothotmail.com> wrote:

>A couple of times in recent weeks, FINDFAST is running and using up
>all spare cpu
>
>I left it once, 10-15 minutes still going - had to terminate process
>
>any ideas why this shoudl happen, and what can I do to prevent it
>happening.
>
>(Running Win98 SE)
>
>
>
>Steve

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> P.S.: To disable FastFind is one of the top priorities in the guidelines
> for setting up computers in our corporal network at where I work. Don't
> feel bad about killing it, it's a useless little troublemaker and it
> should be done away with as soon as possible.

hi jure sah,
i checked my c/panel and double clicked on the find-fast icon,
but fortunately it said it requested disk2 of Office2000 for it
to be activated, does this mean its not running in the background
of my comp?

i have heard some strange and wiley tales about this trouble-maker,
but am yet to confirm either way...... can you supply more details?

...Rex..

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| > P.S.: To disable FastFind is one of the top priorities in the guidelines
| > for setting up computers in our corporal network at where I work. Don't
| > feel bad about killing it, it's a useless little troublemaker and it
| > should be done away with as soon as possible.
|
| hi jure sah,
| i checked my c/panel and double clicked on the find-fast icon,
| but fortunately it said it requested disk2 of Office2000 for it
| to be activated, does this mean its not running in the background
| of my comp?
|

Nope, the .inf file that the installer removes to un-install is in the tools
on CD2

| i have heard some strange and wiley tales about this trouble-maker,
| but am yet to confirm either way...... can you supply more details?
|
| ..Rex..
|

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I use AVG and AdAware. That sounds reasonable that maybe some spyware, or a
virus got into it. About the strange and wiley tales - I didn't have any
problem when I had Office and FindFast. The computer that I ran Office on
had Win98SE.

jkb

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Rex wrote:
> i checked my c/panel and double clicked on the find-fast icon,
> but fortunately it said it requested disk2 of Office2000 for it
> to be activated, does this mean its not running in the background
> of my comp?

That's odd... Yes it sure seems so... but if you had to end task, then
it is obviously running so. You can try deleting it from the "StartUp"
menu and restarting, that should do the trick anyway.

> i have heard some strange and wiley tales about this trouble-maker,
> but am yet to confirm either way...... can you supply more details?

Basically, what it does is as you said, it uses up all spare CPU. But
this of course is not quite as perfect as it seems, because it uses a
little more than that and makes your computer less responsive. This is
because the harddrive is actually slower than the rest of the computer
(memory and processor) and causes little pauses (called CPU interupts)
while it works and FindFast works with the harddrive a lot.

FindFast, is actually a program that creates and index of the files you
have and extracts data from your Word files etc. It is used by the
office file open dialog (while the actual search dialog integration is
only present in Windows 2000/XP) to provide some extra features. But of
course if you only use the office file open dialog to open files then
you do not need FindFast.

In our particular case, our company uses computers both as office
computers and as process control stations. We have a research /
laboratory environment. What we noticed was that computers running
FindFast can become really REALLY slow in what they are doing,
particulary when they are monitoring a process and not using much CPU,
but still trying to do it's logging (harddisk writing) and control in
real time. When FindFast starts running, the other programs no longer
run in real-time.

Many people also disslike FindFast because it is a form of spyware.

Long story short, FindFast is intended to make your computer faster
(faster searching, without FindFast searching still works but is slower
in some cases), but in reality it makes it slower (and this is tested
and prooven, not mere theory) and as such it should be disabled.

I usually always disable FindFast on Windows 98SE and older, in Windows
2000/XP computers however, I check if the computer is to be nothing but
an office computer and if such, I explain to the user how the search
feature is used and ask them if they intend to use it. If they say they
won't I delete FindFast.

And wether FindFast actually even works, I have yet to proove. Testing
so far shows that it doesn't work with network drives. At best I'd say
it is unreliable for all else also.

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