The progress line currently says "6 minutes remaining".
It has been saying that for the last 5 minutes.
Yesterday I had a machine that said "0 seconds remaining" for long enough for me to go down 3 flights of stairs, buy a drink and return...
A Microsoft Minute is clearly a very elastic measurement of time!
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Youngest son had a great day yesterday. Weather stopped us having a real barbeque, so we cooked the food in the oven and ate indoors. It was still good. Having a real one at the weekend if the weather clears up.
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Now I am hungry again.
Ate far too much last night - still too full in the morning to eat breakfast - now I am starving. Will go to lunch as soon as this installation finishes.
"5 minutes remaining".
5 comments:
Generally, it's best to close other applications when installing software. It speeds up the process quite a bit. And there's probably something in the background slowing down your system or preventing the install program from running properly. Or maybe it's just a poorly written install program. They're incredibly complex little programs doing all kinds of stuff that the user never sees.
I love computer stuff. Can't live without it, but it's bound to drive you to drink. Hope you'll be able to get some lunch soon!
wigsf - the PC I was installing the stuff on was doing only that - I suspect a dodgy installer program, to be honest...
Terri - I think I just miss my old Mac days where you could install a program by merely dragging a folder of stuff into the desired location!
Tell me about it.
Ever since we installed our new & improved system last week, my computer has gone on vacation (twice) without me. Nothing makes me crankier that having your laptop freeze up while it is compiling the program.
BTW - while my son was working for the Empire this summer in Redmond, I use to ask him if they had programmers out there just coming up with new applcations to slow down my pc.
agg79 - Of course they are - why else would you want to buy a new PC every couple of years? I sometimes wonder what it would be like to install something like DOS 6 or Windows 98 on a new PC...
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