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Oh yes! The hard drive spin up delay always scares the shit out of me. I always think the drive crashed.

Lol, that's probably where in the past explorer would just lock up. They probably just converted a spinlock into "return null".

I remember sometimes XP would do a full, multi-minute lockup (including keyboard) when the C drive was trying to recover a bad block.

Win7 shows a green progress bar in the address bar.