I haven't noticed any correlation between the Watch function and the ICF download time or the ICF configuration time. Once your ICF finally configures, I'd suggest uploading your ICF from the iPronto to your PC, saving it, and then immediately downloading back to the iPronto. The configuration time should be greatly reduced (maybe as short as 5 or 10 minutes -- although this presumably depends on the size of your ICF). I do this once a week and find that the ICF configuraton time after each EPG update is usually pretty short.