>Hi all,
>
>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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>Walter,

Run msconfig. On "Startup" page, you'll find a list with all the programs launched automatically. Uncheck what you don't need. I vaguely recall the findfast is executed from registry too.

Hope this helps,