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There have been quit a few recomendations for settings and removing Fast Find,
the utility installed with Office. So far, I don't like any of the
recomendations. except removing the icon from the startup folder. Why? If
you want to find something contained in a Office document, Fast Find is an
execelent utility to just that.
Yes it uses a great deal of system resources, as MS installs it. But, with
just a few simple option changes, you can have the best of both worlds. I
removed the icon from Startup (put it in another folder) and then removed all
the indexes, and then created just ONE index, for the only place I save Word
docs. Now I occasionally click on the icon, and tell it ot update now. Takes
just moments. I figgured I didn't need it indexing all my drives,( I have 3
drives) nor to be indexing sub-folders like Windows, IE4 or Office97 etc. So
I set it to ONLY index my WordDocs subfolder.
Mike Hayes
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