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Windows: Miscellaneous
Enable or disable Error Reporting (XP)

Start>Control Panel>System>Advanced>Error Reporting

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Enable or disable Task Scheduler at startup (XP)

Start>Run>services.msc>OK.
Double-click Task Scheduler and select the Startup type you want. If you also want to prevent Win2000/XP from
scanning shared files for scheduled tasks, read:
Speed up access to network shares.

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Remove FindFast (98)

FindFast is a program that indexes MS Office documents to make them easier to find and open. But FindFast
destroys the efficiency of the rest of the system. If you just take FindFast out of the Startup group, Office
applications will continue to use the indices that were created. To correctly disable FindFast, you must delete the
FindFast index files.
1. Start>Settings>Control Panel>FindFast
2. In the Index for documents in and below list, click the first item.
3. On the Index menu, click Delete Index.
4. In the Delete Index dialog box, click OK.
5. When you are prompted whether to delete the index, click OK.
6. Repeat above until no more indices are listed.
7. On the Index Menu, click Close and Stop. Then, click OK.
8. Do either of the following:
Remove the FindFast shortcut from the Startup folder, and uncheck ffast.exe in start>run>msconfig>startup. Run the Microsoft Office 97 Setup program in maintenance mode, and remove FindFas

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