[Trlog] Findfast is giving me cw grief

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On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 01:39:41AM -0800, Jim Smith wrote:

> I have never had a QSD problem with TR until SS CW.  Someone actually 
> sent me a QSD report.  Lately my computer has taken to running something 
> called findfast which I presume builds an index on the contents of a 
> bunch of files.  However, it's really arrogant how it goes about it, 
> believing that it's more important than some other processes that are 
> running.  At one point, it stopped TR while in the middle of a dah, 
> causing me to transmit a steady carrier in a pileup for many seconds.
> 
> I can get rid of it (and osa which I think is part of it) by hitting 
> CTRL-ALT-DEL, scrolling down the list box and ending the task.  However, 
> after a while, it's back, doing it's self-important busyness.  Can 
> anyone tell me how to kill this thing so it doesn't come back to life?  
> Hell, I'd even buy a silver bullet if I knew where to aim the damn thing.

>From http://home.earthlink.net/~leetutor/DoWin/Misctips/findfast.htm

DISABLE FIND FAST

Microsoft Office and its components (such as Word, Excel, etc.) are by default installed with a utility called Find Fast. This utility is supposed to speed up various performance aspects of Office, but many people have found that it greatly inhibits the speed of the rest of Windows. If you want to remove Find Fast, first delete the icon from the StartUp folder on your Start Menu. Since Find Fast also puts an applet in the Control Panel, you should go to your Office Tools setup and remove the program using the Add/Remove Programs option. You might need to find the file FindFast.cpl in your Windows/System folder and delete that too. Before you do the last two steps, you should run the Find Fast applet in Control Panel, and use it to select each existing index file and then choose Delete Index on the Index menu. This will gain you back some space used by these hidden index files. Then click on the Close and Stop item on the Index menu.

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