For those of you who want to know, Vista actually add a "smoothing" to the loadingbar change, it look like the "Tweening effect" of Flash.
Before you display your message box, call Application.DoEvents() to force all the pending Windows queued messages to be processed. Your progress bar is probably not getting a chance to paint itself one last time before the message box displays.
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