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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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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 -- Mary Sauer MS MVP http://office.microsoft.com/ http://www.mvps.org/msauer/ news://msnews.microsoft.com "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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