That all makes sense. But what about the progress bars that aren't even monotonically increasing (by which I mean they go backwards)!?! Explain them!,(reply>), Because the amount of total steps until finished increased wirthout the program knowing in before Hand.<br><br>Imagine 100 Tasks. To do.<br>At 50 Tasks youre 50% Done.<br><br>But now you know you need to do 200 Tasks.<br><br>You have two Options: halt the bar until 100 steps are Done and youre at 50% again.<br><br>Or let the bar jump Back to 25%,(reply>), If, 10 minutes into what the computer thought was going to be a 20-minute operation [so the progress bar is at 50%], it realizes it's going to be an hour, should it leave the progress bar alone or change it to 16%?,(reply>), <b>*Dumb programmers*</b>,(reply>), wormholes