Andy is right, FindFast can ultimately slow your system to a crawl.
I always go to Start/Settings/Taskbar, locate the Startup folder
and DELETE the FindFast Icon.

If you don't like the idea of deleting the icon, MOVE it to some
other subdirectory at least.

FindFast is one of the reasons you get the hourglass "wait" icon
on the screen for several seconds when you first start up Windows and
finally get to the desktop.

I also move any other icons I find in Startup that I really don't
want to autoload on startup. There are some items you really want
to keep, but typically about half of the items in Startup don't
really *have* to be there. I move these kind of items to a subdirectory
(folder) that I have named Startupx.

Fr. Tom McGahee

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From: Andrew Kunz <akunz@TDIPOWER.COM>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 3:32 PM
Subject: Re: [OT]: winxx hard-drive wipe was Uninstalling a Dual-boot computer


> If you have M$ Office components loaded, FindFast will do this to you.  Fonts
> are another horrible thing - don't load them if you don't need to.  You can
> store them offline in a separate directory from \windows\fonts and just copy
> them in as needed.
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> I have a Win95 box that hasn't been scrubbed in 4 years, and still runs well
> (considering it's a 133).
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> Mark Skeels <meskeels@EARTHLINK.NET> on 09/28/2000 03:27:37 PM
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> > It wont remove win98, but it wont show up on the boot screen. I do sugget
> > though that a complete re-load be done. Any Version of windows needs it
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> Does anyone know exactly what happens to winxx machines in this regard? I
> have seen numerous cases of a winxx pc slowing down until it barely crawls,
> locks up, etc. The only thing that will cure it is a reformat of the
> hd/reinstall of Windows and all associated apps/drivers.
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> It's a real pain!
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