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findfast.exe file information

The process Microsoft Office Find Fast or Microsoft Office Snelzoeken or Microsoft Office 2000 component belongs to the software Microsoft Find Fast or Microsoft Office 97, or Microsoft Snelzoeken or Microsoft Office Professional or Microsoft Office 97, Standard or FINDFAST.EXE by Microsoft Corporation (www.microsoft.com).

Description: findfast.exe is located in a subfolder of "C:\Program Files" - e.g. C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\. Known file sizes on Windows XP are 111,376 bytes (89% of all occurrence), 122,880 bytes, 131,133 bytes, 86,528 bytes, 15,872 bytes.
The file is not a Windows system file. Program is loaded during the Windows boot process (see Registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders, HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders). The program is not visible. Therefore the technical security rating is 39% dangerous, however also read the users reviews.

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If findfast.exe is located in a subfolder of "C:\Documents and Settings" then the security rating is 36% dangerous. File size is 9,728 bytes (40% of all occurrence), 10,240 bytes, 24,070 bytes. The program has a visible window. The file is a file without information about the maker of this file. The application starts upon Windows startup (see Registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders, HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders). findfast.exe is not a Windows core file. findfast.exe seems to be a compressed file.

External information from Paul Collins:
There are different files with the same name:

• "Find Fast" definitely not required. Complete utter waste of space! Part of MS Office - searches disk drives for Office file types to make opening them easier
• "Microsoft Find Fast" definitely not required. Complete utter waste of space! Part of MS Office - searches disk drives for Office file types and creates an index to make opening them easier

Important: Some malware camouflage themselves as findfast.exe, particularly if they are located in c:\windows or c:\windows\system32 folder. Thus check the findfast.exe process on your pc whether it is pest. We recommend Security Task Manager for verifying your computer's security. It is one of the Top Download Picks of 2005 of The Washington Post and PC World.

It comes from office, i don't think it actually does anything though.
  SgtLion  

Findfast befindet sich idR im Office-Verzeichnis. Es dient höchstwahrscheinlich dem Laden der Recent Dateien.
  marcus  

Microsoft Office Find Fast gets installed with MS Office 95/97/2000. Supposed benefit is to enable you to find docs faster from w/i MS Office. In practice : like TASKMON it makes no visible difference to end-users, and totally not needed on faster PCs. Find Fast is a total waste of time and a very annoying since it causes many PCs to "freeze" for 2 to 5 seconds.
  D. Renee Kittel   (further information)

Then one I had, steals my internet bandwidth
  Sam  

I do know that this web-page seems a waste of time!!
   

Harmless, just part of Windows: something to do with searching and Office.
  Mark W  

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