linux has the best progress bars because you can actually expand that sucker and see what its doing... in windows a lot of the time you don't get that information and that is frustrating some times... like when you think it may have just died... it's nice to be able to verify if it's stil workinng. I mean they could forgo most of the progress thing and just have a staight up count of tasks completed of total tasks the current log of activities viable and i would be happy... so long as i can verify that its not stuck... and it gives me some idea of how much its done so far..