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Here's a Windows fun fact (lemmy.world)

submitted 17 hours ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/curatedtumblr@sh.itjust.works

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[–] e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 93 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 7 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/topic/the-welcome-screen-may-be-displayed-for-30-seconds-during-the-logon-process-after-you-set-a-solid-color-as-the-desktop-background-in-windows-7-or-in-windows-server-2008-r2-b4565ced-703a-cc85-bf9c-6b3d586d6421

[–] fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 hours ago

That has nothing to do with single threading that shit, an Arduino could draw that image faster. Most likely something fails to start correctly and windows waits for a 30 second timeout to run out before continuing anyway.