there's also the story that wiggling the mouse in Win95 when installing something really does make it go faster.
https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/11533/why...
Quote: "Hitting the key, through a rube-goldberg-esque series of events, forces all outstanding load requests to be filled immediately in a single frame. This causes a massive hitch, and potentially could crash the game. If you don't care about those adverse effects the synchronous load is faster."
[1] https://www.eurogamer.net/a-single-button-press-skips-loadin...