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Here's a Windows fun fact (lemmy.world)
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[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 57 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (3 children)

I tried to figure out if this was real, and the closest I found was this article where setting a solid color background in windows 7 would cause up to a 30sec delay during login. The solution was apparently to make a small image in the color you wanted, and tile that image so that it would cover the whole desktop.

Here's a hackernews discussion on it, includes some other fun stories like how windows 95 progress bars would complete faster if you were wiggling the mouse the whole time.

[–] NickwithaC@lemmy.world 16 points 12 hours ago

I KNEW IT!

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

i always ran solid color backgrounds with win7. never experienced this 'issue'.

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 19 points 9 hours ago

Maybe you did, and you didn't even notice

Imagine how much faster your computer could have been

[–] Badabinski@kbin.earth 26 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I bring up the mouse wiggling thing all the time when I'm sharing my screen at work. I get impatient with computers very easily, so I start wiggling and jiggling and doing figure 8s with my mouse cursor and say that "it makes the computer go faster." Then I get to be distracted by telling someone how that used to be kiiinda true back in the good ol' days of PS2 and single threaded cooperatively-multitasked operating systems (the fact that PS2 sends hardware interrupts still blows my mind a bit).

Funnily enough, I learned about it from a greybeard who did a stint at Novell. He'd constantly jiggle his mouse around while waiting for shit and I bet he was just waiting for me to ask him why he thought it made the computer "faster."

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

I was confused by this message, thinking that you were randomly distracted by discussing PlayStation 2 performance with someone, until I remembered PS/2.

At least it wasn't 5-pin. I might have thought you were talking about S-video.