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What's the longest you've watched?

a progress bar that didn't appear to be progressing at all?

Update:

In fact, there appears to be no progress at all and you begin to suspect that rather than progress, it's hung...

Update 2:

You really, really want it to not be hung and hurry up and get there and open so you can get going (you really, really want it to open.. really, really!!)

Update 3:

You've waited so long and you really, really want it to complete so you can resume.. (yeah, you really, really want to resume... )

Update 4:

quite possibly such a really, really long time that your life's progress now appears to be hung ...

Update 5:

and very likely for a really, really long time your hands have been hung over the control alternate delete for what seems like an eternity...

Update 6:

hung for a really, really long time coz you really, really don't want to give up now...

Update 7:

coz you've really, really dedicated yourself to seeing this through and you really, really cannot just break off and just let it be.. so you're really, really hung...

Update 8:

and powerless to reach in there and make it happen.. and even knowing there's no assurance it won't go on like this for a really, really long time to come..

Update 9:

you’re really, really committed to seeing this through regardless...

Update 10:

really, really committed...

Update 11:

and you know that... you know that very well !!!!!

Update 12:

whoa, you're thinking, this is taking a long time to resolve.. a really, really long time... and you’re feeling very, very tired..

(really... )

Update 13:

I've turned away so many times, I'm spin-dizzy.

I've lived on mountains, in the middle of EVERYWHERE BEAUTIFUL AND MAGNIFICENT, and didn't even get a TV broadcast signal (and didn't miss it one bit!)

This one is a bit rhetorical in nature, but thanks for the tech tip all the same.

15 minutes -- in truth, that's more than I can bear. I'd be up doing other things while the doggone thing finished.

No way I'd let anything run 12 hours on my puter, unless I was running some highly complex model -- but, I'd be off doing other things, that's for sure.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    12 hours, whilst doing other things of course.

  • 1 decade ago

    an hour at most.

    might i make a suggestion? there's this 3rd party app that takes the place of the default progress bar. it copies much faster and is more error free compared to the one used by windows. it's name is teracopy and it's free. you can try it out if you like. just google it, install and you're all set.

    hope this helps.

  • 1 decade ago

    Oh god it happens to me regularly. I have a terrible internet service as i live on a mountain in the middle of nowhere, with just a wifi access point and home made antenna. It makes even asking or answering on YA hell at times.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    15 mins

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  • 1 decade ago

    Maybe you should turn away ... things always happen when we're not paying attention ;-)

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