>> Same thing happens if you accidentally click on A: by mistake. Entire 
>> Windows shell locks up for a few seconds while it repeatedly polls the 
>> device until it's quite sure there's no disk there. *sigh*
> 
> Not for me. It just hour-glasses that one window. Maybe you didn't set 
> the checkbox that says "run each window in a separate process"?

No, that's checked. It doesn't seem to make any noticable difference to 
anything though.

(My favourit part is when you open the "My Computer" window, and you 
have a CD in the drive. Now Windoze locks up while it spins up the 
CD-ROM drive to check what the volume label is... What, you can't 
*cache* that? Or multitask while you're waiting?? Damnit, AmigaDOS 
managed that trick 15 years ago...)

>> No, but when I give it a new tape and tell it to restart the backup 
>> operation, it would be damn useful if it would start *doing* the 
>> backup rather than just sitting there looking at me! :-S
> 
> That's why I like disk drives for backups better. :-)

And what on earth makes you think that using different backup hardware 
would solve a problem with a poorly designed software product?

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