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Progress bars.

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Rowboat

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I don't really care if you are on 71% of the install phase, versus 71% of the file modification phase, or 71% of the download phase.

If you can give me that information plus an overall look at when I need to return to catch the end then great. Otherwise give me the overall picture.



 
Or better yet, the ones with the blue progress bar. And it starts to fill...and it's almost full...it's full!

Then it starts over and does the same thing over and over, giving no indication of how far it is.
 
Originally posted by: BrunoPuntzJones
Or better yet, the ones with the blue progress bar. And it starts to fill...and it's almost full...it's full!

Then it starts over and does the same thing over and over, giving no indication of how far it is.
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Or the ones that fill up to 97% in 5 seconds and then sit there for the next 20 minutes. Genius.
 
Originally posted by: Saint Michael
Originally posted by: BrunoPuntzJones
Or better yet, the ones with the blue progress bar. And it starts to fill...and it's almost full...it's full!

Then it starts over and does the same thing over and over, giving no indication of how far it is.
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Or the ones that fill up to 97% in 5 seconds and then sit there for the next 20 minutes. Genius.
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Aw i hate that crap! Or just totally freezes at 99%, leaving you thinking should i ctrl alt del? will it start again? what if it dosent, awww maaan. I don't know what happens at the end of things but i find if its going to permanently freeze anywhere itll do it at 99%.
 
Originally posted by: maxster
Originally posted by: hiromizu
Even worse is the gay ass spinning rainbow beachball on MacOS X.
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What's this?
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The spinny wheel of death, when an application isn't responding. 🙂

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Any yeh, I hate the bad info provided by the installers. Even more so as I work in the software industry 🙁
 
They should change the whole thing to something like:

50% of application installed - 500MB of 1000MB - estimated time based on your shitty computer: 10hrs
 
Originally posted by: hiromizu
They should change the whole thing to something like:

50% of application installed - 500MB of 1000MB - estimated time based on your shitty computer: 10hrs
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thats how it does work... it takes the average size of the files to be installed along with how many files, gives its estimated time to complete and updates the progress bar based on how many files it has already processed. if you have 3000 2kb files and 1 300mb file, it will be all quick-like until it hits that 300mb file. then it will recalculate, since that average just took a nosedive. thats why you see the time remaining bounce up and down so much on some installs. giving a more accurate progress report would be a ton of work to figure out i think. at least breaking it into sections gives you an idea on whats left, as long as you put the check mark list of whats done and what is left to do.
 
You'll really love Vista then -- all usable progress bars are replaced with this green "fading" effect, rendering them completely useless.
 
Originally posted by: Saint Michael
Originally posted by: BrunoPuntzJones
Or better yet, the ones with the blue progress bar. And it starts to fill...and it's almost full...it's full!

Then it starts over and does the same thing over and over, giving no indication of how far it is.
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Or the ones that fill up to 97% in 5 seconds and then sit there for the next 20 minutes. Genius.
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So true, this is one of the funniest parts of office space because that shit happens all the time. I think I prefer the "spinning stick" often used in old dos applications...it may only tell me that its just doing something and give me no indication of how long its going to take...but at least it isn't constantly lying to me!
 
My favorite was the Novell install progress bars. They had blocks filling in on the progress bar plug a percentage on how much was completed. When the install was almost finished the bar would be filled but file names would continue scrolling by as more files were copied even though it was at 100%. I think the percentage even used to go to 101% which was pretty funny.
 
Originally posted by: AMCRambler
My favorite was the Novell install progress bars. They had blocks filling in on the progress bar plug a percentage on how much was completed. When the install was almost finished the bar would be filled but file names would continue scrolling by as more files were copied even though it was at 100%. I think the percentage even used to go to 101% which was pretty funny.
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Adobe installs are similiar. Acrobat 7 sits at 100% for like another 15 seconds before it finishes. When that bitch hits 100% it best well dissapear and I better be able to click a finish button with someone congratulating me on getting hemroids I waited so long...
 
Originally posted by: hanoverphist
Originally posted by: hiromizu
They should change the whole thing to something like:

50% of application installed - 500MB of 1000MB - estimated time based on your shitty computer: 10hrs
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thats how it does work... it takes the average size of the files to be installed along with how many files, gives its estimated time to complete and updates the progress bar based on how many files it has already processed. if you have 3000 2kb files and 1 300mb file, it will be all quick-like until it hits that 300mb file. then it will recalculate, since that average just took a nosedive. thats why you see the time remaining bounce up and down so much on some installs. giving a more accurate progress report would be a ton of work to figure out i think. at least breaking it into sections gives you an idea on whats left, as long as you put the check mark list of whats done and what is left to do.
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Well I understand that, but that's not the expectation that it sets on the end user - in perspective, it appears as a "time" bar rather than a "progress" bar to most people.
 
What about those old installers with the three progress bars...they were suppose to be something like total completion, current file completion...and I don't remember what the last one was. They weren't labeled with text, they just had icons that all basically meant the same thing. I believe they were a picture of a CD, somekind of hard disk and a folder.

You don't really see those anymore.
 
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