<< WHAT IS FIND FAST? >> 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