Spinning Wheel or Flipping Hourglass?

Hey, it's Vista. Your PC probably IS in an endless loop .

But does it spin counter clockwise on the other side of the equator?

Might as well - what a system..............

The "spinning wheel" may be the more accurate metaphor (i.e., spinning one's wheels and getting nowhere)!

So which is more frustrating, the old flipping hourglass of previous MS Windows versions, or the new spinning wheel of Vista?

Neither. It's the software (of all kinds) that doesn't give you any indication that it is working. At least not until you have "double clicked" it 2-3 times. Then it beaches at you that you aren't allowed to have more than one open at a time.

I reckon both are equally annoying.

...an alternative for us blokes would be a chick stripping or for the gals, a bloke doing the same...at least something constructive is happening before your computer crashes and you get to see the full monty 'cause Windows OS is sooo slow

I don't know about Vista, but back in the Win98 and XP days, you could customize your pointers any way you wanted- both came with "Themes" (mouse eating cheese comes to mind). I do not believe there was ever a "Theme" including members of either gender disrobing, but I do remember something along the lines of lizards or dinosaurs and such...

Mine has gotten so slow, I was thinking of replacing it with a calendar.