Users who used a single-color background in Windows 7 sometimes had to wait longer to log in. By Laura Pippig. Staff Writer, PC-WELT May 3, 2025 9:00 am PDT. Image: Friemann / Shutterstock.com.

Windows 7 came onto the market in 2009 and put Microsoft back on the road to success after Windows Vista’s annoying failures. But Windows 7 was not without its faults, as this curious story proves.