Sunday, 4 May 2025

Windows 7 took ages to load if you had a solid background.

quote [ The code for the message that the background image is ready was located within the background image bitmap code, which means that the message never appeared if you did not have a real background image bitmap. And a single color is not such a bitmap. ]

The article notes that they eventually fixed it after months. At least it's not intential sabotage .
[SFW] [science & technology] [+1 Funsightful]
[by Paracetamol@2:00pmGMT]

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Paracetamol said @ 3:08pm GMT on 4th May
This super interesting article on DR DOS came up – people post very interesting comments:

When It Comes To DOS, Don’t Forget DR-DOS.


Despite the latest and greatest Intel-derived computers having multi-core 64-bit processors and unimaginably fast peripherals, at heart they all still retain a compatibility that goes back  to the …


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