And yet, quite often progress bars can't even do that: show that something is happening. Like this kind of progress bar, that you actually see quite often:<br>......10%......20%.........30%..40%.50%.60%....70%...................................................................................................................................<br>.......................................................................................................................................................................................80%.90%.100%<br><br>And other times they try to show that something's happening with a spinner or other animation of some kind. You know, the type that just keeps spinning even though the background proces has been standing perfectly still for the last half hour.<br><br>Plenty of room for improvement IMO. Although I DO like the double progress bars, where there's one for total progress through the different tasks and one for the task at hand.