Has anybody else noticed the new message that Microsoft have put into their installers (such as the one for .NET framework 2, VS05 and Vista)? No, well ill quote it:

[quote:c6bccab88d="M$ Installers"]Installation is taking longer than expected, but should be finishing soon[/quote:c6bccab88d]

Why should we believe these? The last time i had one of these, it was 2 hours until installation finished, and now that i have one again in the newer 9GB install version of Vista, with only 3GB installed, god knows how long it'll take to install.

i had a simular msgage on an installation of win98 it had been runing a minute it said it would take 30 minutes then suddenly it said that for a min and finished, i gess that was the only thing it could do as i was insalling it on a high spec xp sys to get rid of xp cause this was a vertion before they had fixed the bugs in xp and i needed a workin system,

Personally, I prefer a percentage. That way I can work out roughly how long.

what about percentage bars, because it appears on them as well

I prefer a number. The percentage bars often look wrong.

on old things they normaly are wrong cause it has a auto time gap between each block as well as the extra time for the persentage to be correct but now it takes so moch less time it can be finished before it says 50 percent

Yeah, but the newer ones calculate it by amount transferred (accurate) or number of files (innacurate as files differ in size).