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May, 2000      Diablo Blue      Page 9

Removing Find Fast  from the Microsoft TechNet Web Site

We keep getting requests from members who want to remove or turn off Find Fast. Here's an excerpt from an article from the Microsoft TechNet web site that tells how to accomplish this task. The article is based on Office 97, but works with the version of Find Fast that comes with Office 2000 (if you have Office 2000 just substitute that name wherever you see "Office 97" in the article).

Find Fast Overview

The Find Fast Indexer is installed on your computer when you install Microsoft Office 97. Find Fast builds an index to speed up finding documents from the Open dialog box in Microsoft Office programs.
When you install Microsoft Office 97, a shortcut called Microsoft Find Fast is automatically added to the StartUp group. This allows Find Fast to run whenever you start the computer. After Find Fast is started, it automatically builds indexes and updates them in the background.
If you attempt to disable the Find Fast control panel by simply removing the Microsoft Find Fast shortcut from the StartUp group, the following problems may occur:

  • The index files are not removed from the hard disk. The size of these index files depends on the number and size of Microsoft Office documents you store on your computer.
  • Microsoft Office programs continue to use the existing index files whenever you click Open on the File menu. When you disable Find Fast by removing its shortcut, the index files are not updated as you create or modify documents. This may prevent you from finding files you want to open, or cause unnecessary delays when you open files.
Disabling the Find Fast Indexer
The correct way to disable Find Fast requires that you delete the Find Fast index files. To do this, use the following steps:
  1. On the Start menu, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel.
  2. In the Control Panel window, double-click Find Fast.
  3. In the "Index for documents in and below" list, click the first item.
  4. On the Index menu, click Delete Index. In the Delete Index dialog box, click OK. When you are prompted whether to delete the index, Click OK.
  5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 until no more indices are listed.

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Microsoft Bug Site  by  Ron Ogg, DVPC

Here's an interesting site -- a Microsoft site that actually lists bugs and bug fixes for Microsoft's development tools (Visual Basic, FoxPro, etc.) and some application server products (Internet Information Server, SQL Server, etc.). If you're a developer who uses Microsoft products, this site is a great resource when you are trying to research a development problem!

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