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Old August 13th, 2004, 03:22 AM
Jake Fraser
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Default Fast Find

Did anyone ever wonder what the "Find Fast" feature was
on your control panel? Here's what it is:

The find fast program is made out to be something that
finds something fast right? wrong. The fast find program
is an indexer. You'd never of thought it would index your
whole hard drive. Now here is a good example of the
lengths Microsoft has gone through to keep people from
finding out Find Fast indexes their hard drives. (Always
good to have an alibi.) And I 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

Did you get that last part? If you were a wealthy man and
you decided to buy every single car in the car lot, would
you
a) Say, "I'll take the red ones, the blue ones, the
silver ones, the white ones, the champagne ones, and all
of them," or
b) "I'll take them all sir."
As you can see, they don't want people to realize that
Find Fast is keeping an index of your entire hard drive.
They walk around the car lot saying "I'll take the red
ones, the blue ones, the silver ones,..."
I personally witnessed the Find Fast Indexer "creep" its
way back into my Startup folder after I removed it.
There's no possible way I could have done this on
purpose. In fact the only way I could have done it is if
I created a shortcut to Find Fast and then moved the
shortcut into Startup manually. There's no option on the
Find Fast program to add it to Startup.

Just something i thought people would like to know what
microsoft do. I could only imagine why they would do
this. Yet, microsoft have an alibi for everything.
Someday, they will be caught out.

Jake Fraser

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Old August 13th, 2004, 11:15 AM
Mary Sauer
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Default Fast Find

You can turn it off and you can delete the indexes.
OFF2000: How to Turn Off the Find Fast Indexer
http://support.microsoft.com/default...&Product=ofw2k

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"Jake Fraser" wrote in message
...
Did anyone ever wonder what the "Find Fast" feature was
on your control panel? Here's what it is:

The find fast program is made out to be something that
finds something fast right? wrong. The fast find program
is an indexer. You'd never of thought it would index your
whole hard drive. Now here is a good example of the
lengths Microsoft has gone through to keep people from
finding out Find Fast indexes their hard drives. (Always
good to have an alibi.) And I 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

Did you get that last part? If you were a wealthy man and
you decided to buy every single car in the car lot, would
you
a) Say, "I'll take the red ones, the blue ones, the
silver ones, the white ones, the champagne ones, and all
of them," or
b) "I'll take them all sir."
As you can see, they don't want people to realize that
Find Fast is keeping an index of your entire hard drive.
They walk around the car lot saying "I'll take the red
ones, the blue ones, the silver ones,..."
I personally witnessed the Find Fast Indexer "creep" its
way back into my Startup folder after I removed it.
There's no possible way I could have done this on
purpose. In fact the only way I could have done it is if
I created a shortcut to Find Fast and then moved the
shortcut into Startup manually. There's no option on the
Find Fast program to add it to Startup.

Just something i thought people would like to know what
microsoft do. I could only imagine why they would do
this. Yet, microsoft have an alibi for everything.
Someday, they will be caught out.

Jake Fraser



 




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