Add elevator music to Windows progress bars!

Instant Elevator Music is a fun little application that sits on the system tray and automatically starts playing cozy elevator music whenever a progress bar appears on the screen.

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Instant Elevator Music works with a large number of programs, including:

Windows Explorer: while copying/moving/deleting files
Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox: while waiting for downloads to finish
Microsoft Office and Visual Studio: while waiting for programs to load
7-Zip: while waiting for archives to extract
TeraCopy: while waiting for files to copy/move
Audacity: while waiting for music files to open/save
Eclipse: while waiting for it to load, complete a build or refresh the workspace
VMWare: while waiting for a virtual machine to resume
Virtual PC: also while waiting for a virtual machine to resume
Most installers

By default, the program comes with only one music but you can choose to play any music you want.

One useful addition to this application is a counter that tells you how much time you waited for the progress bar to complete.

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Instant Elevator Music came a bit too late – it would have been fun in the days of yore when we ran 333 MHz machines and spent hours watching the progress bar crawl. It’s still fun though.

[via Download Squad]

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