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Originally
posted by
Jim Sachs:
That's to prevent all the full-screen black flashes that everyone had been reporting a couple of months ago. By switching to windowed mode an instant before exiting, most of the drama in Vista is avoided.
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...however, it also does that on XP, providing additional drama for XP.
I'm not sure it's worth fixing, but I did want to make sure it's known.