This setup is taking too long...

[gevorg]

So, do you do this?

 

[pcgeek11]

Yes I do sometimes....

 

[sandorski]

it has happened

 

[lxskllr]

I look in the terminal, and see what it's doing.

 

[Krazy4Real]

Haha! Yup, I sure have.

 

[Captante]

I think we all have.

 

[SunnyD]

Nope. I just get up and walk away, possibly go fap for a while, eat something, etc. until it's done.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

That's why I'm so happy when software designers include the actual percentage expressed in numerals along with any status bar. Is it frozen? Nope, just went from 64% to 65%, we're good. Now we just need to get rid of the "the status bar just finished, but it turns out that it was only the first of 17 progressively slower status bars that you'll have to sit through" nonsense that's somehow still around even after being parodied in Office Space. If your shit was parodied in Office Space, you fix it. That's why there aren't still printers saying PC Load Letter... OK, bad example.

 

[rudeguy]

Haha! Yup, I sure have.

Ever leave your mouse for a mark, walk away for a while to see if it progresses, then shake the mouse to wake up the computer when you come back?

I am a giant, stupid, moron.

 

[JulesMaximus]

No, I wear my sweaters normally, not draped over my shoulders like a dork.

 

[Smoblikat]

lol, never seen that image before, but its good to know im not the only one who does that.

 

[cbrunny]

yep!

 

[HN]

i do it on optical illusion gifs to realign my brain

 

[Belegost]

No, I wear my sweaters normally, not draped over my shoulders like a dork.

I thought it was a shoulder harness, as in a roller coaster, in an ironic poke at claims of "blazing speed."

 

[AdamK47]

I've done it on my work PC. My home PC never has that problem.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

I've done it on my work PC. My home PC never has that problem.

Intel Core i7 5960X - Asus Rampage V Extreme - 16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 - Four Nvidia GTX 980s in 4-Way SLI - 256GB Samsung 850 Pro SSD - Five 1TB Samsung 840 EVO SSDs in 5TB RAID-0 - 6TB Seagate 7200RPM HDD - Pioneer BDR-206 BD-RW - Corsair Obsidian 750D case - Thermaltake Water 3.0 Ultimate cooler - Corsair AX1500i power supply - Razer BlackWidow Ultimate keyboard - CST LaserTRAC 2545W trackball - BenQ BL3200PT monitor - Shure SRH1440 headphones - Windows 8.1 Pro x64

Sure hope it doesn't.

 

[Red Storm]

Back in the 90s sure, but haven't experienced that in a long time.

 

[Red Squirrel]

LOL I do this all the time! Haha.

Microsoft should really have a meter for "expanding files" though. Like, one that goes from start to end for each % increment. It's brutal how slow that process is on newer windows OSes. I always wonder if it froze after it's sat on 0% for like 10 minutes. Every system I've installed on, that process is always the slowest.

 

[Jeff7]

Progress bars can usually be ignored. Task Manager can offer some insight on the installation process, to see if it's using the CPU, or performing any reads or writes.

They're damn near useless in a lot of programs. I guess making a decent progress indicator is something that only the most skilled programmers in the world are capable of, and they're all working for Google or the NSA.


The basic classes of progress bar:
- Sits in the 1-10% range for most of the installation, then abruptly goes to 100% and finishes.
- Takes 5 seconds to reach 99%, then takes another 2 minutes.
- Takes 3 minutes to get to 100%, then stays there for another 10 minutes.

 

[lxskllr]

Progress bars can usually be ignored. Task Manager can offer some insight on the installation process, to see if it's using the CPU, or performing any reads or writes.

They're damn near useless in a lot of programs. I guess making a decent progress indicator is something that only the most skilled programmers in the world are capable of, and they're all working for Google or the NSA.


The basic classes of progress bar:
- Sits in the 1-10% range for most of the installation, then abruptly goes to 100% and finishes.
- Takes 5 seconds to reach 99%, then takes another 2 minutes.
- Takes 3 minutes to get to 100%, then stays there for another 10 minutes.

 

[EliteRetard]

Anybody remember this:

http://progressquest.com/

 

[Red Squirrel]

Hahahaha!

Yeah the windows copy bar has got to be one of the worse ones.

Now that I'm on Linux I'm actually surprised when it says "30 seconds remaining" and it actually takes... 30 seconds. That's witchcraft right there.

Actually they're upgrading us to windows 7 at work, there's some kind of migration process that goes on at the start, and if you get an error it says "will reboot automatically in 39485849 minutes" or some other crazy high number like that. I had to laugh when I saw that. Is that the Sabbath edition? Not allowed to press a key, but if you wait long enough, the Sabbath will be over.

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

I am a giant, stupid, moron.

To sig, or not to sig. That is the question.

 

[rudeguy]

To sig, or not to sig. That is the question.

Do it!

Do it you sissy!

 

[Childs]

Progress bars can usually be ignored. Task Manager can offer some insight on the installation process, to see if it's using the CPU, or performing any reads or writes.

They're damn near useless in a lot of programs. I guess making a decent progress indicator is something that only the most skilled programmers in the world are capable of, and they're all working for Google or the NSA.


The basic classes of progress bar:
- Sits in the 1-10% range for most of the installation, then abruptly goes to 100% and finishes.
- Takes 5 seconds to reach 99%, then takes another 2 minutes.
- Takes 3 minutes to get to 100%, then stays there for another 10 minutes.

The best solution is to omit the time remaining part so its just a percentage of the tasks completed, or change it to time elapsed. If it takes too long I always use cpu usage and disk access.