scott wrote:
> I bet there's some core code that is still from Windows 1 :-)

No. Vista added the ability to cancel an outstanding IO request that was 
hanging. XP doesn't have that, so you get a timeout. Known problem fixed 
years ago.

> Don't remember the last machine I used with an "A" drive, but the same 
> happens with CDs and DVDs that it can't read properly.

That in part is a kernel/driver problem, since it actually *does* hang the 
whole machine to a large extent.

> As I said, if I unmap the drives the problem goes away.  Issue is that I 
> don't want to have to remap them everytime I connect to the network 
> they're on!

Shell scripts to the rescue?

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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   The question in today's corporate environment is not
   so much "what color is your parachute?" as it is
   "what color is your nose?"

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