Windows 10: Progress Bars Freezing

Hi. I've been experiencing an issue where progress bars freeze. This does not happen all the time, and it seems to only happen when the progress bar window is minimized or another window covers it up. So far I've noticed it in windows explorer when transferring files from laptop to an external hard drive. The progress bar will just get stuck on some random percentage and will not change. The files are still copying normally. When the file copy has complete, the progress bar window remains open and is still frozen at the same point in which it got stuck at. The only way to get rid of it is to click on cancel or the X close button. Once you do this, if you try to transfer more files, the progress bar window won't even appear. Restarting windows fixes the issue. I've also noticed this just now with a 3rd party program. I was encoding a video and it was going to take about 20 minutes so i just minimized the window to keep it out of the way. The progress bar was at 2% when I minimized the window and it got frozen on 2%. The program continued to complete it's task (in this case encoding a video) perfectly normal, just the progress bar was not working. The only way I was able to determine when the encode had finished was by opening task manager and monitoring the CPU usage. Upon completion the program would not respond when I clicked on the "X" close button. I had to use task manager "end task" to close the program. After that I reopened the same program and tried encoding another video just to see if the progress bar would work and it did. Has anyone else experienced this? Is it a known issue? Is there a fix? Thanks. Ver. 20H2 Build 19042.928

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search progress bar freezes

When I search in W10 File Explorer, the progress bar moves quickly at first, then slows down, and then freezes before the search is complete.

I do not use Cortana for my searches.

Any suggestions to solve this, please?

Thank you.

 

installer for java dev. kit (jdk-8u102-windows-x64) FREEZES on progress bar

As @jatuttle0 suggested, installing the jdk from safe mode did the trick. Also, I think that if all the files were extracted to C:/Java/jdk... then you shouldn't be worried too much for this freezing progress bar since it doesn't do anything accept saying that the installation was successfull.

 

installer for java dev. kit (jdk-8u102-windows-x64) FREEZES on progress bar

I saw multiple threads regarding this issue, and no solution has worked out for me. <Can't install Java\JDK on Windows 10>, <JDK 8 installation does not progress on Windows 10>

I have downloaded the official Oracle exe windows installer for 64 bit system, and tried to install it. After the initial extraction is complete, the "status" progress bar freezes and I can't find any solution:

1. I run it as administrator.
   
2. I activated the hidden windows 10 admin account, and ran it as administrator once again.
   
3. I disactivated the UAC in windows control panel.
   
4. I formatted my windows 10 OS completely.
   

I really ran out of options, and this is the most frustrating thing ever. Please help me.

Here is OK:





Here is the FREEZE progress bar:





Few Notes:

• I didn't have these issues with any other software I tried to install
  
• I installed successfully the java-7 latest public release.