1001 Secrets for Windows NT Registry
(Publisher: 29th Street Press)
Author(s): Tim Daniels
ISBN: 1882419685
Publication Date: 12/01/97

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I-11 Change the value of BootExecute under the Session Manager key to prevent Windows NT from running chkdsk at boot time.

Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Key: System\CurrentControlSet\Session Manager
Value Name: BootExecute
Data Type: REG_DWORD
Value: autocheck autochk *

This change may be necessary if you have really bad disks (other than the boot disk) and need to disable chkdsk so that you can proceed with the boot procedure. Restart the machine for any changes to take effect.

Microsoft FindFast 8.0/97

I-12 Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Key: Software\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Find Fast\97
Value Name: Path
Data Type: REG_SZ
Value: D:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\Findfast.exe

This path leads to the FindFast executable. Other software can use this key to find the FindFast utility.

I-13 Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Key: Software\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Find Fast\97
Value Name: LogFilePath
Data Type: REG_SZ
Value: C:\WINNT\System32\FFASTLOG.TXT

This fully qualified path and filename is where the FindFast utility writes its activity.

I-14 Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Key: Software\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Find Fast\97
Value Name: LogFilePath
Data Type: REG_SZ
Value: 10800000 (default is 3 hours, 3*60*60*1000)

This value is the interval (in thousandths of a second) at which the FindFast indexes are updated.

I-15 Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Key: Software\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Find Fast\97
Value Name: IFilterConverter
Data Type: REG_DWORD
Value: D:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\Office\Ifilter.cnv

This fully qualified path and filename is where the FindFast utility looks for its index filter.

I-16 Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Key: Software\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Find Fast\97\Index List
SubKey: Index 00

This SubKey sets where FastFind looks for information on a given index.

I-17 Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Key: Software\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Find Fast\97\Index List\Index 00
Value Name: Automatic
Data Type: REG_DWORD
Value: 1

Setting this value to 1 means that NT automatically updates the current index; setting this value to 0 means that the current index is not automatically updated. The value is in binary format.

I-18 Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Key: Software\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Find Fast\97\Index List\Index 00
Value Name: Folder
Data Type: REG_SZ
Value: C:\

This fully qualified pathname points to the root of the directory structure to be indexed. All the subfolders from the point specified in this entry are indexed.

I-19 Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Key: Software\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Find Fast\97\Index List\Index 00
Value Name: Additional Folders
Data Type: REG_SZ
Value:

This value specifies folders to index in addition to the directory pointed to by the Folder key.

I-20 Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Key: Software\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Find Fast\97\Index List\Index 00
Value Name: Type
Data Type: REG_DWORD
Value: 0

This value specifies the type of documents to be indexed. Acceptable values are:

0 Microsoft Office documents
1 Microsoft Word documents
2 Microsoft Excel documents
3 Microsoft PowerPoint documents
4 Microsoft Project documents
5 All indexable file types (excludes .exe, etc.)

I-21 Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Key: Software\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Find Fast\97\Index List\Index 00
Value Name: Index Operation
Data Type: REG_DWORD
Value: 3


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