SoftIce (v3.1) Memory Searching problem ...

Can someone advice me how I should search memory for some value ? I am using "s 0 l ffffffff 'value'" but I often get freeze computer (neverending searching - or searching is very slow and I cant cancel it) and can do nothing but reset. Is there way how can I get memory range which is used by program I am "analyzing" (prob newbie question - sorryz). Or maybe there is better tool for memory searching? Thx in advance.

I had this problem before, I think that I fixed this by always searching only the first 2gb of memory since user mode program only have access to this part of the memory. The other half is reserved for the kernel and it's driver. So instead of doing s 0 l FFFFFFFF do s 0 l 7FFFFFFF.

Thx ! No problems now.