[Xastir] Windows 98 feature after deleting Cygwin/Xastir

[Brenda O'Hagan]

"findfast"???
comes with office and indexes your drive every time something changes.

i haven't used windows for a long time - so 'tis a guess.

On Tue, 25 May 2004 09:42, Bill Vodall WA7NWP wrote:
> I've been doing LOTS of installs of Xastir/Cygwin and the corresponding
> removals of the entire Cygwin system.   That's hundreds of megabytes and
> thousands of files.   It appears that some resource in Windows 98 is used
> up by doing the large delete.   It takes a significant time for the folder
> I delete "cygwin" out of to come back to life, redraw, and again respond to
> clicks and other events.  Following this massive delete, very often other
> window redraws and actions on the desktop suffer the same multi-minute
> freeze in activity.  The only cure I've found is to reboot.
>
> (Empty space added for Curt's obligatory Linux comment.   :-)   )
>
> Does anybody here know what "feature" of Windows 98 I'm running in to
> and if there's a real fix for it?   I'm essentially up to date on Windows
> patches.
>
> Thanks.
> Bill - WA7NWP
>
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