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No, it has to do with every time you move the mouse over a window, a hover event is sent to the application, which runs its main event loop. Either the installe
by ninkendo 11mo ago
No, it has to do with every time you move the mouse over a window, a hover event is sent to the application, which runs its main event loop. Either the installer only updated its progress bar when an event happened (in which case it would only appear to be going faster, because the progress bar would move more smoothly) or there was some really terribly written code that literally only made progress when an (unrelated) event happened. My guess is the former.
- moron4hire 11mo agoBeing a bored kid in the 90s with nothing better to do, I had timed it. It was actually faster.
- fransje26 11mo agoNo, that's not quite correct. It was not giving the impression of being faster, it was faster. https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/11533/why-did-moving-the-mouse-cursor-cause-windows-95-to-run-more-quickly https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/11533/why...
- anthk 11mo agoIRQ's. It was faster.