Sergey,

>>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

It seems that my upgrade from office 97 to 2000 left the findfast program in my startup dir. I've deleted it now, and hope this problem is gone.

Thanks.

Walter,