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Here's a Windows fun fact
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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.
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."
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.
PS/2 and S-Video are both the same style of din connector but one is 4 pin and the other is 6. The 5 pin din used was way bigger than both.
I KNEW IT!
i always ran solid color backgrounds with win7. never experienced this 'issue'.
Maybe you did, and you didn't even notice
Imagine how much faster your computer could have been