I built a simple progress bar (I want to use it in many other programs), but the problem is, if I move the window, or click on anything else the progress window freezes. The script keeps running but the progress window has "Not Responding" and does not update. from tkinter import * from tkinter.ttk import * from datetime import * import time def main(): # get start time to calc execution time start_time = datetime.now().replace(microsecond=0) print(start_time, "\n") GB = 100 window = Tk() percent = StringVar() text = StringVar() fleft = StringVar() download = 0 speed = 5 percentLabel = Label(window, textvariable=percent).pack() taskLabel = Label(window, textvariable=text).pack() leftLabel = Label(window, textvariable=fleft).pack() bar = Progressbar(window,orient=HORIZONTAL,length = 300) bar.pack(pady=10) while (download < GB): download += speed time.sleep(1) bar['value']+=(speed/GB)*100 percent.set(str(int((download/GB)*100))+"%") text.set(str(download)+" files completed!") fleft.set(str(int(GB - download)) + " left to complete.") window.update_idletasks() window.mainloop() if __name__ == '__main__': main() Continue reading...