What does Office Findfast do? The program that starts at the start up.

[j@cko]

If its function isn't important, then I will just disable it.

 

[drewshin]

yeah i heard its better to disable it.

 

[HansXP]

It indexes your Office files (and maybe others too, dunno). Unless you do a lot of searches it's useless and will waste CPU time.

 

[ZaneNBK]

No, it's not important and it causes SEVERE performance problems. Every now and then it'll scan all your hard-drives and store the directory contents in an index so that searching for a file by name is faster than usual. For most people searching for files by name is done so rarely that the little performance gain is no-where near offsetting the HUGE performance loss during normal operation. Definately un-install FindFast.

 

[Jzero]

It was written to slow down PCs that run old-school proggies too fast by sucking up extra processor time. Unless you're having problems hearing the notes in "LOOM" you might as well can it

 

[PliotronX]

It serves one purpose: suck system resources.

 

[Thyme]

Pissed the hell out of me and my 200mhz until i disabled that sob.

 

[calpha]

Find Fast locates testicles and kicks the Sh!t out of them.

It used to try to run everytime I opened Visual Studio.