>Sergey,
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>>>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.
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>>Did you check in Start Menu -> Programs -> Startup?
>>BTW, what version of Windows are you using?
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>Doh. the obvious... Thanks. FYI, I've been experiencing this problems on both W98 and W2000 in combination with MSOFFICE 2000.

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>What exactly does FINDFAST do ? It seems to be a real pain in my cases, because it takes so much performance.
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I'm not sure, but I think it's MS office indexing routine that creates and updates special index files for quick finding of office documents. Also, if I remember correctly, FINDFAST.EXE is from Office 97/98. In Office 2000 it has different name Osa9.exe