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I agree with you completely. I also agree with Jim in one respect: the programmers who wrote the icon-driven programs for workbench should have made the assumption they were working with newbies and written their programs accordingly. Throwing up a message which says "Diskcopy completed" when it isn't is DANGEROUS with new users about, head load lights notwithstanding. It would have been simple enough to hold the prompt on that one program until the physical disk activity had been completed; at the very least they could have been crude and put in a fixed five second delay or whatever. I remember back when the Ami first hit the streets… MOST of us were complaining about what Jim is now speaking of. We rationalized it by saying "Watch the light, not the screen", but at that time most of us felt that the early prompt was a bad move. Maybe we've gotten complacent now that we know our way around. I know I have. But I also still recognize a bad move when I see on. Rick