Why some apps use fake progress bars (2017)
I had a report in Microsoft Access that took about five minutes to run - and the users hated it.<p>I had the application throw up a fake dialog with fake messages about "Collating data, Cross checking, Sorting" and other such nonsense.<p>The report now took eight minutes to run because I had to abuse the "On Timer" event for it to work.<p>The users were delighted with the improvement.