Windows has included a variety of wallpaper images for the desktop background from the beginning, but it is also possible to set a solid color that displays only the color selected from the color ...

The result: the logon system waited in vain for the message that the background has finished loading, so Windows 7 never started until the 30 second fallback activated and sent users to the desktop.

It turns out that the Windows 7 logon system was waiting for the desktop wallpaper bitmap to load and a report that this process was complete. Thus, those who frowned upon using graphical ...

This week's Microsoft news recap is here with bad news for gamers, more expensive Xbox consoles, no new Windows 11 builds, a nice review of a nice gamepad, some Windows 11 version 24H2 news (good ...

What is more interesting to The Reg FOSS desk, though, is that this machine has its own OS – a Linux distribution called Commodore OS. Developer Leo Nigro of Commodore USA just released version 3.0.

Acer today unveiled updates to the family of Swift thin-and-light Copilot+ PCs - the Swift Edge 14 AI and Swift Go AI Series ...

Acer used the days leading up to the Computex 2025 event to announce its new laptops and desktop PCs. The company showed off ...

Both laptops are powered by NVIDIA ® GeForce RTX ™ 5070 Laptop GPUs with NVIDIA Blackwell architecture and also feature ...

Acer today unveiled the Swift Edge 14 AI and Swift Go AI Series powered by the latest Intel Core Ultra 200V Series processors with integrated Neural ...

Soon after Microsoft released Windows 7 in October 2009, some users reported a 30-second delay when booting PCs if the desktop background was a solid color. Microsoft developer Raymond Chen ...

Bring back the classic Windows feel with Windows 7 Reloaded Edition — a free theme that transforms Windows 11 with a ...