Sergey,

>>I've been experiencing performance problems because FINDFAST.EXE is taking up processor time. Now I kill the process with the Task manager, but how can I prevent it beeing started in the first place.

>Did you check in Start Menu -> Programs -> Startup?
>BTW, what version of Windows are you using?

Doh. the obvious... Thanks. FYI, I've been experiencing this problems on both W98 and W2000 in combination with MSOFFICE 2000.

What exactly does FINDFAST do ? It seems to be a real pain in my cases, because it takes so much performance.

Walter,