This hack applies only to the Microsoft Office 2000.

In case you are experiencing a slow down on your Windows system it could be due to Office 2000. Office 2000 comes with a Find Fast Indexer that helps in increasing file search speed. This, however, may not be a good thing on large drives; the system may slow down when an index is being created or updated.

Use the following Registry edit to delay the indexing for a specified amount of time between index updates—which, in turn, will reduce heavy system activity and improve performance & speed.

1. Click Start
   
2. Click Run
   
3. Type regedit in the Open input box and hit ENTER key
   
4. Navigate to:
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Find Fast
   
5. Incase if you do not have a DWORD Value named SlowDown in the right pane,
   • Click New on the Edit menu, and then click DWORD Value
     
   • Type SlowDown, and hit the ENTER key to name the entry.
   
   
6. In the right pane, right-click SlowDown, and then click Modify.
   
7. In the Edit DWORD Value dialog box, click Decimal, and then type the delay time in milliseconds under Value data. The default is 1000 (1 second).