> The engine writes to the database on SELECT as well. So turn off
> Forced-Writes (if they are on) and you should see an improvement.

I would never encourage people to set Forced Writes Off in a windows
environment,
for speed up selects. Usualy there are other things wrong and should get
fixed in
the correct manner.
In case of lost data nobody is interested in the speed you got by switching
forced writes off.
This modus should only be used in very special cases but not as a default
setting

....my 0,02 Eurocents

HTH
Achim