- Very slow response
- Posted by John Smith on August 29th, 2004
Hi
I have a P4 2.MHz HP system with over 500Mb RAM
Since I have set it up about three months ago it just seems to get slower
I constantly wait for the PC to catch up to my keystrokes - especially in
Word and Excel
I am using XP, Zone Alarm, web root spy sweeper - cable modem etc
It seems the PC is as slow when I am connected to the Internet as when I am
not
I have moved most of the files under 'My Documents' to separate root file
directory as I had heard this can slow the system down
Is there anything obvious I am not seeing?
Any freeware know to check system over?
Many thanks
Stephen West
Gold Coast, Australia
- Posted by °Mike° on August 29th, 2004
You mentioned Word and Excel. Do you have
Fast Find enabled? If so, disable it.
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- Posted by John Smith on August 29th, 2004
Cannot find 'Fast Find' options - can you point me in the right direction?
Thanks
Stephen
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- Posted by °Mike° on August 29th, 2004
I'm not a MS Office user, but I understand that you
can run the Office Setup program in maintenance
mode, and disable Fast Find from there.
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- Posted by Dean C on August 29th, 2004
John,
On W95/98 machines Microsoft used to install in the control panel something
called fastfind with Office. It was an indexing program that allowed quicker
searches for Office files. In WinXP it does not install in the control
panel. So the trick was to go into the control panel and switch off this
silly indexing service.
I think there's an alternate cause to this problem as I'm using a similar
spec machine with similar software and there's no obvious lag.
Suggest you delete all temporary files under your profile. Right click your
c: drive in My Computer and go to properties. Under the general tab click on
"disk cleanup". Sometimes users have many MB (50MB+) of temp files. Delete
them all.
Defragment your hard disk. It may be possible your Windows pagefile has
become very fragmented. You'll see this when you run the defrag routine -
analyse first before defragmenting. If the page file is split into many
pieces you're performance will be poor.
Scan for viruses. Make sure you have a reputable antivirus program running.
Make sure your CPU clockspeed is being reported correctly in Windows (device
manager - processor). Maybe your bus frequency has changed in BIOS.
Check your available RAM in task manager. With 512MB of RAM you should have
well over half free after startup. Check what programs are running at
startup - run msconfig go to the startup tab. See what programs are
launching and if they are really needed or not.
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- Posted by Pennywise on August 29th, 2004
On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 05:44:21 GMT, "John Smith"
<west59stephen@hotmail.com> wrote:
|>Cannot find 'Fast Find' options - can you point me in the right direction?
|>Thanks
If Fast Find is your problem your task manager will show a file called
FFIND being run. search for and delete ffind.exe, it's fast and your
finally rid of the piece of crap.
Of course you will have to stop the fast find task in the task manager
first.
- Posted by Linda on August 29th, 2004
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enable or disable.
If you hadn't top posted, this thread would be easier to follow.
- Posted by Pennywise on August 29th, 2004
On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 05:30:46 -0700, Pennywise <PW@DerryMaine.gov>
wrote:
|>On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 05:44:21 GMT, "John Smith"
|><west59stephen@hotmail.com> wrote:
|>
|>|>Cannot find 'Fast Find' options - can you point me in the right direction?
|>|>Thanks
|>
|>If Fast Find is your problem your task manager will show a file called
|>FFIND being run. search for and delete ffind.exe, it's fast and your
|>finally rid of the piece of crap.
|>
|>Of course you will have to stop the fast find task in the task manager
|>first.
I read in another post the path and name is:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\FINDFAST.EXE
I was sure it was named ffind.exe - must be what I renamed it to
before I deleted it - I don't know what happened :}
Oh well get rid of it - you have no need of it and it defaults to on
(running) when you install word.
