That's a band-aid fix. Ideally nothing should gets stuck, so the ugly progress bars are enough. From the sound of it, your Armory is stuck. If you want to help, gimme details about your VM setup and attach your log files.
The VM:
2gb memory
1 processor 2 cores
Windows 10 tech preview*
ArmoryLog:
http://pastebin.com/yRMDMZJPNote that armory has crashed a few times today, and was outputting this error at yesterday.
2015-03-11 00:14 (INFO) -- announcefetch.pyc:271 - Fetching: https://bitcoinarmory.com/announce.txt
2015-03-11 00:14 (ERROR) -- announcefetch.pyc:283 - Specified URL was inaccessible
2015-03-11 00:14 (ERROR) -- announcefetch.pyc:284 - Tried: https://bitcoinarmory.com/announce.txt
2015-03-11 00:14 (INFO) -- announcefetch.pyc:271 - Fetching: https://s3.amazonaws.com/bitcoinarmory-media/announce.txt
2015-03-11 00:14 (ERROR) -- announcefetch.pyc:283 - Specified URL was inaccessible
2015-03-11 00:14 (ERROR) -- announcefetch.pyc:284 - Tried: https://s3.amazonaws.com/bitcoinarmory-media/announce.txt
*Because I didn't want to install another version of windows, I run windows 8 natively.