Re: PC based lighting... Re. Diagnosis of Dead Desk


David Lee wrote:
>
> Fast Find is something that you can safely get rid of. It is an Office97
> component that maintains indexes of files to allow faster searching from the
> Open Office Dialogue (including file contents). It can seriously slow down
> your computer. You can disable it from its properties dialogue but the best
> way is to remove it by re-running Office setup (from add/remove programs)
> and clearing the Find Fast checkbox in the "Office Tools" section. Before
> doing this you should open Find Fast and delete any indexes otherwise Find
> in Office File Open dialogues may use out of date indexes and not work
> properly. Windows XP also has a similar facility called the Indexing
> Service which supports full-text searching of files and this can be removed
> by running Windows Setup from Add/Remove Windows Components (Control Panel -
> Add or Remove Programs).
>
> A useful trick that can solve a wide range of problems with Office
> components is to re-regisiter by running the component's exe file with the
> /regserver command-line switch. Open a command prompt ("DOS box") and CD to
> the folder containing the Office executables (winword.exe etc) - I have
> Office97 pro and these are in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office.
> Then simply type winword /regserver. This will rewrite part of Word's
> registry entry in your user account but will not lose any of your personal
> settings. If this doesn't work then try completely rebuilding Word's
> registry entry by running winword /unregserver but be aware that all your
> personal customizations of Word will be reset to default. The registry
> entry will be re-built next time you run Word or else you can do it manually
> by running winword /regserver again. I can't guarantee that this will solve
> your problem but it can't do any harm (apart from resetting your defaults as
> I have described) and has been known to fix a multitude of problems. This
> also works for most office components - including the minor ones like Photo
> Editor.

Thanks for the advice. This is my home machine, which has to do an
awful lot of things, and time is seldom a problem. I was just using
this as an example to point out the unpredictability of a PC under
Windows.

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