PCI-822 User’s Guide
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— Find Fast for Office —
If you use Microsoft’s Office products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint,
Schedule, or Access), the “Find Fast” utility was probably installed in
the Windows Control Panel. The utility periodically scans your disks,
building indices of all your Office documents so their names can be
displayed quickly. Unfortunately, the indexing activity could pound
your disks while you’re trying to play back a multitrack recording.
To prevent Find Fast from running, you can either remove it
permanently or disable it temporarily while you work on audio.
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To disable Find Fast permanently, open the Windows “Startup” folder
and delete “Microsoft Office Find Fast Indexer.” (You can use Windows
Explorer to navigate to “C:\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\StartUp.”)
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To disable Find Fast temporarily, open the Windows Control Panel
(Start
g
Settings
g
Control Panel) and double-click the Find Fast icon.
When the Find Fast window appears, select ‘Pause Indexing’ from the
Index menu. When you want to enable Find Fast, select ‘Pause Indexing’
again.
Multi-tasking
Computers can run many applications at once, but if you run more
than one at a time, the performance of each individual application
diminishes. Your audio applications are particularly heavy users of
CPU cycles and disk bandwidth, so it’s important to minimize the use
of other high-demand applications. It’s probably OK to run a word
processor in the background while you’re mixing down, but avoid
applications that do a lot of computation or frequently access the
hard disk.
