>From:    Andy Cotnoir <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Hard Drive Activity

>I recently formated my hard drive and re-installed win98SE as
well as =
>Office XP.  Since then after about 5 min of in-activity my hard
drive =
>starts working and unless interrupted can go on for about 15-20
min and =
>then stops.  As soon as I go back on the computer the routine
starts =
>again.  Any idea what could cause my hard drive to work like
this and =
>how I can stop it.  I have a P3  450mhz, 128 megs ram, 20 gig
HD.  I =
>have disabled Office fast find.  It sounded like it was always
trying to =
>defrag itself or some other software is working away but can't
figure =
>out what it really is....help
>Andy Cotnoir

Office XP has a Fast Search function similar to Fast Find.
The following is from Woody's OFFICE Watch newsletter.

" I had SC go into Word and open up the Search pane (the
  easiest way is by clicking the down arrow in the upper
  right corner of the task pane and choosing Search). I told
  her that it sounded to me like Fast Search had been turned
  on. Fast Search, also known as the Indexing Service, is an
  Office XP feature that hooks into the operating system to
  create indexes of all your files. The indexes make it
  easier and faster for Office to search for text inside of
  files. (Fast Search is a distant cousin of Find Fast, an
  abomination in earlier versions of Office that should be
  impaled with a wooden stake. But I digress.)"

Dick

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