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Windows 7 would boot much slower if you used specific wallpapers — A veteran Microsoft engineer links the bug to a "simple programming error"
A veteran Microsoft engineer recently described how Windows 7 took longer to load when users selected certain desktop ...
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Windows 7 took forever to load if you had a solid background. Now we know why
Some users apparently encountered a vexing problem at the time: if they set a single-color image as the background, their Windows 7 PC always took 30 seconds to start the operating system and switch ...
Turns out that the earliest versions of Windows 7 took longer to load depending on your choice of desktop wallpaper
There used to be a time when you'd log in to your Windows 7 machine, and have enough time to go fetch a cuppa as it thought ...
Here's why Windows 7 took so long to boot with solid color backgrounds in 2009
Soon after Microsoft released Windows 7 in October 2009, some users reported a 30-second delay when booting PCs if the ...
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Windows 7 took ages to load if you had a solid background. Now we know why
their Windows 7 PC always took 30 seconds to start the operating system and switch from the welcome screen to the desktop. In a recent blog post, Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen explains the exact ...