This would seem to be time wasting, too, but it gives you real feedback about what menu item was actually selected. All of us have missed a menu item by a few pixels numerous times, I'm sure, but without that feedback, you have to wait and see what happens
 Agreed completely.

One nice thing about Windows 2000 is that I can use TweakUI to disable all the animations for the menu appearing on the screen, but leave the one fade-out for the menu disappearing so that I get that Apple-style feedback for which item I selected.
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Tony Fabris