What about those installations when you cannot press Shift-F10, because the install (in this case a Repair) is not running within an instance of Windows? It is the install program that runs straight from boot-up. I have waited the 20 min and still have yet to be able to get the install to continue - the green bar does not move forward. It has 13 minutes left of registering components, and this is a repair of windows using XP with no service packs attempting to fix an XP which had service pack 2.
UPDATE:
OK I got tired of waiting and tried rebooting... same issue. So this time I waited again... and for 20 minutes it seemed like it was doing the same thing again, but then all of a sudden, BLAMMMO! "Setup will complete in approximately 9 minutes" and I didn't have to do a thing while that stupid window sat there. Awesome.
