A Microsoft veteran recently revealed why things took a little longer on Windows 7 systems with solid backgrounds during ... desktop background was a solid color. Microsoft developer Raymond ...

Play with the Backgrounds Use one of these 3 free tools ... Under Background, select Solid color. Then, choose a light background, e.g., orange, and the font will turn from white to black.

Cheng attributes the problem to the design of Windows 7's logon system ... Cheng added that the reason he prefers solid color backgrounds is because using 0.75MB of wallpaper was inefficient ...