diff --git a/packages/core/src/shared/lsp/lspResolver.ts b/packages/core/src/shared/lsp/lspResolver.ts
index 70f66cafd14..ba51030e348 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/shared/lsp/lspResolver.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/shared/lsp/lspResolver.ts
@@ -13,9 +13,10 @@ import { TargetContent, logger, LspResult, LspVersion, Manifest } from './types'
 import { createHash } from '../crypto'
 import { lspSetupStage, StageResolver, tryStageResolvers } from './utils/setupStage'
 import { HttpResourceFetcher } from '../resourcefetcher/httpResourceFetcher'
-import { showMessageWithCancel } from '../../shared/utilities/messages'
+import { showProgressWithTimeout } from '../../shared/utilities/messages'
 import { Timeout } from '../utilities/timeoutUtils'
 import { oneMinute } from '../datetime'
+import vscode from 'vscode'
 
 // max timeout for downloading remote LSP assets. Some asserts are large (100+ MB) so this needs to be large for slow connections.
 // Since the user can cancel this one we can let it run very long.
@@ -106,7 +107,15 @@ export class LanguageServerResolver {
      */
     private async showDownloadProgress() {
         const timeout = new Timeout(remoteDownloadTimeout)
-        await showMessageWithCancel(`Downloading '${this.lsName}' language server`, timeout)
+        void showProgressWithTimeout(
+            {
+                title: `Downloading '${this.lsName}' language server`,
+                location: vscode.ProgressLocation.Notification,
+                cancellable: false,
+            },
+            timeout,
+            0
+        )
         return timeout
     }
 
diff --git a/packages/core/src/shared/utilities/messages.ts b/packages/core/src/shared/utilities/messages.ts
index fe2b08e42cf..26fd745c8d6 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/shared/utilities/messages.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/shared/utilities/messages.ts
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ export function showOutputMessage(message: string, outputChannel: vscode.OutputC
  *
  * @see showMessageWithCancel for an example usage
  */
-async function showProgressWithTimeout(
+export async function showProgressWithTimeout(
     options: vscode.ProgressOptions,
     timeout: Timeout,
     showAfterMs: number