Solid Color Backgrounds Cause 30 Second Login Delays | Windows 7 News

Well here’s something I bet you didn’t expect, apparently if you set your Windows 7 machine to have a solid color background, it will hang for 30 seconds before it actually loads.

So if your into having a bleak and barren desktop with just a dull grey background, it may feel like time takes an age to pass. The reason being that, Windows 7 prefers to have a lively background image to load up every time it boots up.

But why does Windows 7 decide to hang for 30 seconds if you’ve set a plain color background image? Well basically it’s a bug that’s present in Windows 7 and Windows server 2008 R2.

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