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23696	2007-03-29 09:28:00	THE TRUTH ABOUT FIND FAST "The Find Fast Indexer is a utility that builds indexes to speed finding documents using the Open and Open Office Documents commands in Microsoft Office programs, including Microsoft Outlook." So what does that mean? Well, if you read it carefully you'll see that Microsoft never mentions that it will speed up your searches. In fact it has nothing to do with the "Find: Files or Programs" utility. Here are some more quotes from Microsoft: "The Find Fast Indexer tool tracks the location on the hard disk of all Microsoft Word for Windows documents by default. When one of these files is moved, the Find Faster Indexer tool updates its index." "Indexes are used to make file searches faster in Office programs." "The Find Fast Indexer is installed on your computer when you install Microsoft Office 97. Find Fast builds an index to speed up finding documents from the Open dialog box in Microsoft Office programs." Find Fast scans and indexes every single file on your hard drive? Find Fast automatically loads on every boot (because it added to your Startup folder.) quote: "When you specify the type of documents to index in the Create Index dialog box, Find Fast includes the document types that are listed in the following table. Doc Type File Name Extension Microsoft Office files All the Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Web documents PowerPoint, Microsoft Project, and Microsoft Word document types listed in this table. Microsoft Binder (.odb, .obt) and Microsoft Access (.mdb) files. Note that in .mdb files, only document properties are indexed. Microsoft Excel workbooks .xl* files Microsoft PowerPoint files .ppt (presentation), .pot (template), .pps (auto-running presentation) files Microsoft Project files .mpp, .mpw, .mpt, .mpx, .mpd files Microsoft Word documents .doc (document), .dot (template), .ht* (Hypertext Markup Language document), .txt (text file), .rtf (Rich Text Format) files All files *.* files Find Fast is keeping an index of your entire hard drive. So you could say its spyware. Its definetly unnecessary bloat.	pctek (84)
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