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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2025 23:15:25 -0000 (UTC)
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From the “Ripley’s Believe It Or Not” of software bugs: Windows users
who chose a plain desktop background instead of a picture found their
login process taking longer -- instead of getting to their desktop
within a few seconds, it could take up to 30 seconds.

Why? It turned out that the login system was waiting for a
notification that all desktop components had loaded. The desktop
background component sent this notification after loading a picture,
but somehow the code path for a plain background colour forgot this
notification.

These are the sorts of stupidities in Dimdows that are slipping
through QA testing these days.

<https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/windows-7-users-with-a-solid-background-color-faced-delayed-login-process-it-took-four-months-for-microsoft-to-fix>