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by **Buzz O'De** » Thu, 16 Sep 1999 04:00:00

I'm racing GPL and suddenly the hard drive light starts flickering. The
screen starts skipping. This goes on for a couple of minutes and then
the floppy drive light goes on and IT runs for about ten - fif***
seconds. Then the hard drive light flickers a few more times before the
whole spasm ends and I can go back to racing. I can pause in an offline
game and wait for it to pass but, if it happens during an onlinr race I
am up Merde Creek. Any ideas?
roy

by **asgeir nes?e** » Thu, 16 Sep 1999 04:00:00

Turn off Office FastFind. Remove it from your StartUp folder.

Right click the start button and choose open. Then open programs, and
finally StartUp...

This must be one of the worst inventions ever made. I'd like to meet this
geezer who made this FastFind personally...

---Asgeir---

> I'm racing GPL and suddenly the hard drive light starts flickering. The
> screen starts skipping. This goes on for a couple of minutes and then
> the floppy drive light goes on and IT runs for about ten - fif***
> seconds. Then the hard drive light flickers a few more times before the
> whole spasm ends and I can go back to racing. I can pause in an offline
> game and wait for it to pass but, if it happens during an onlinr race I
> am up Merde Creek. Any ideas?
> roy

by **Doug** » Thu, 16 Sep 1999 04:00:00

I've had this problem too. Do you have any Microsoft Office products
installed? I only noticed this problem after I installed it. Also.. do you
have any virus programs running in Windows? If so.. disable them. By
disabling or removing anything that is runnnig in windows that you don't
need while playing your game, you can save alot of hassle.

by **Mike Buckle** » Thu, 16 Sep 1999 04:00:00

Office 97 installs FindFast into your startup folder, this uses wads of
system resources, delete it from the startup folder and you should see a
reduction in sudden bursts of HDD activity.
Office 2000 may do the same thing but hides it under 'Office Startup' or
something like that.
--
Mike Buckley
Cotswold Pig Development Co Ltd
Tel: +44 (0)1472 371591 Fax: +44 (0)1472 371208

http://www.toastyhamster.freeserve.co.uk

by **Rick Math** » Thu, 16 Sep 1999 04:00:00

If you have Microsoft Office installed, then you'll probably find that this
is being caused by an annoying little program called FindFast which runs
every few hour's or so. If thats the case then your best bet is to run
MSConfig and remove it from your startup.

> > I'm racing GPL and suddenly the hard drive light starts flickering. The
> > screen starts skipping. This goes on for a couple of minutes and then
> > the floppy drive light goes on and IT runs for about ten - fif***
> > seconds. Then the hard drive light flickers a few more times before the
> > whole spasm ends and I can go back to racing. I can pause in an offline
> > game and wait for it to pass but, if it happens during an onlinr race I
> > am up Merde Creek. Any ideas?
> > roy

--
--
R K Mather

by **Jan Verschuere** » Thu, 16 Sep 1999 04:00:00

Can I watch when you do? <g>

Jan.
----

<snip>

by **Kirk Lan** » Thu, 16 Sep 1999 04:00:00

I wanna shot too!

And make sure he doesn't get to wear a cup! ;D

--
Kirk Lane

ICQ: 28171652
BRT #187

"I read dead Russian authors volumes at a time
I write everything down except what's on my mind
'Cause my greatest fear is the sucking sound
And then I know I'll never get back out"
-'Narcolepsy', Third Eye Blind

> Can I watch when you do? <g>

> Jan.
> ----

> > Turn off Office FastFind. Remove it from your StartUp folder.

> > Right click the start button and choose open. Then open programs, and
> > finally StartUp...

> > This must be one of the worst inventions ever made. I'd like to meet
this
> > geezer who made this FastFind personally...

> > ---Asgeir---
> <snip>

by **Larr** » Fri, 17 Sep 1999 04:00:00

Norton Anti-Virus?

-Larry

by **Eldre** » Mon, 20 Sep 1999 04:00:00

>Turn off Office FastFind. Remove it from your StartUp folder.

>Right click the start button and choose open. Then open programs, and
>finally StartUp...

>This must be one of the worst inventions ever made. I'd like to meet this
>geezer who made this FastFind personally...

You wouldn't BELIEVE the problems Find Fast causes with our systems at
work...<sigh>
When you find the twit, CALL me...<g>

Eldred

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by **asgeir nes?e** » Thu, 23 Sep 1999 04:00:00

I will call you guys when I find him.

I am not sure I would knocked the shit out of him, that would have been too
easy on him. But I'd love to ask him: "Are you the person who wrote the
findfast utility?". And then getting an aswer: "Yes, that was me". Then I'd
ask him if had any regrets. And if he claimed he hasn't, I'd just give him a
solid open handed slap across the cheek. And let the next guy in the line in
to do the same, and the next one, and next one, and next ....

Hahaha!

I wonder where a guy like that is situated inside the gigantic Microsoft
firm. Probably got an early leave...

Would have been funny, though, to try and find him under the cover of
praising the work of the man!!!! I wonder if anybody in Microsoft would buy
somehting like that!

---A---

> I wanna shot too!

> And make sure he doesn't get to wear a cup! ;D

> --
> Kirk Lane

> ICQ: 28171652
> BRT #187

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