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To: Lane3 who wrote (12507)	2/17/2006 4:38:23 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541432

While I understand your caution, consider this: it wouldn't have a cancel button if it didn't anticipate being cancelled. I do appreciate all the talk but I seem incapable of making the point. The checkdisk that starts up at startup permits you to cancel only in the first few moments. Hit any key on the keyboard. After that, the only way is to force a restart. That's not a problem, I suspect, as long as it's simply checking for disk errors. But is likely to be much more of a problem when it's reconstructing the directory. The only counter argument that comes readily to mind is not the cancel button but Windows programmer should anticipate electrical power going off at any time with a computer and have automatic backup routines for such eventualities. It's an index of my ambivalent feelings about Windows programmers that I worry.