How Important Is It Not To Start Until Hour Glass Disappears

[Harry]

Recently I have been doing some work with other people on their computers and they get all up and arms when I click on something before the hour glass completely goes away. They say that doing so will ruin the computer and cause problems. I have been using a computer for years and I have always been way too impatient to wait for the hour glass to stop before I click on something. It has never had any bad effects that I could tell and I do believe that it has opened documents a little faster than waiting for the entire program to load and the hour glass to stop. But I'd like to have other opinions on that.

[ComputerNut]

In my opinion, you should be able to use the computer even when the hourglass cursor is active. When you load windows the hourglass basically means its loading windows, and other startup items. if you have a fast (or fairly fast) computer, it shouldnt be a problem. but then thats my opinion!

[HAL9000]

I've run into instances on Win9X machines where they get fussy about doing something like tha and lag worse, maybe lock up.. but on NT based systems such as NT, 2K and XP, never a problem.

[doctorgonzo]

I agree with HAL...when working with Windows 98, doing too many things at once was asking for trouble, but in working with Windows 2K and XP, I never wait. That's what multitasking and multithreading are about.