I've actually seen some installers that use separate progress bars for each separate process the installer is going to go through (downloading, removing old files, creating new files, changing system settings, running clean up etc).  <br><br>They're rare, but they're way more informative - the original Command &amp; Conquer installer did something like that (admittedly it threw in a few imaginary things too to make the installer part of the game setting, but you know).