Starting up a Windows 7 PC used to be slower for users who favored simple solid color backgrounds over extravagant desktop wallpapers. The delayed startup issue was present back in 2009, for about four months, when Windows 7 was the newest OS on the block. This bewildering phenomenon recently caught the eye of Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen, who ponders over the underlying code problems in his latest Old New Thing blog post.
Chen is a solid color deskto pbackground devotee, favoring a bluish-green background hue, and has retained this preference since Windows 95. I had always been the same, until SSDs became affordable - eschewing bitmap wallpapers for simple, clean, solid colors – thinking that it would also be easier on my meager RAM and the spinning rust. Sadly, this wasn't the case between the launch of Windows 7 in June 2009 and sometime in November the same year. Yes, Microsoft ironed out this wrinkle after about four months of Windows 7's reign.
