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 ...

Soon after Microsoft released Windows 7 in October 2009, some users reported a 30-second delay when booting PCs if the ...

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.