If I hit Crtl-Alt-Delete, the menu comes up. I can logoff or reboot can not see task manager. If I logoff or restart, I go to the Windows login screen as normal.
Attempt to login and get same black screen. I am trying to login to a domain account. I can login to local Admin account. Seems to work fine from this profile. Is this just a corrupt profile issue? Recreating profile will be difficult from off site.
Can try system restore. I have seen several questions posted regarding black screens, but symptoms seem varied in each case. Has anyone else had a similar scenario and found an easy fix? Thank you. This thread is locked. Wednesday, February 3, AM. Hi, Brian et al. Yet I had to improvise in order to get that particular session started. Saturday, February 13, AM. FYI I have this problem as well. I ran the Black Screen fix on prevx website but no luck.
For me the Blu-Ray disc is the x-factor. Sunday, February 14, PM. Same problem here. Booting PC will stop before the login screen appears, only black background and the mousepointer are visible. This started to occur a few days ago, having nothing installed or downloaded that could be the cause. At this moment, when this external drive is powered on while booting Win7 I get the blacks screen. And when I switch the device back on, after the reboot, Win7 keeps running fine and the device is accessible as it should be.
Thursday, February 18, AM. Since this thread is currently the top search result for Windows 7 Black Screen in Google, wanted to post one other solution I recently came across that was completely different than anything listed so far. Had the usual symptoms - Windows 7, could log in, then black screen with only the mouse pointer.
Sometimes I could hit Ctrl-Alt-Del to get to the task manager, other times even that wasn't working. Had recently installed some updates and a new video driver, which was a total red herring because I spent time trying to undo those changes. Tried a system restore, checked the registry as outlined in this thread, and a few other things. Was almost ready to chuck it all and restore from backup when I tried using another computer to go to my Windows Home Server and get some software.
Turns out the WHS was responding to pings, but was not accepting any network connections. Since my black screen computer had several things redirected there Documents, Pictures, some libraries , it apparently was causing the hang during boot. Another symptom I discovered late in the game was that eventually mins the black screen system would finally pick up and continue the logon like nothing had happened. Anyway, I'm assuming something similar could happen for any network system that is not able to get to its shares on a hosted server.
After a reset of the WHS system and it had apparently hung after installing some Microsoft updates everything was humming along again. Hope that helps.
Monday, February 22, PM. No joy. Still get the patented Windows Black Screen of Death upon login. I have two pcs currently exhibiting this problem. Can't get a bit of work done on either machine. Nothing in the event logs, no guidance from Microsoft beyond the customary, "It's not our fault! Meanwhile, my Ubuntu Linux machine upon which I'm writing this message continues to hum along happily.
I can't be sure, but I believe that with the advent of this problem, Bill Gates has now wasted more of my life than did my ex-wife. Perhaps it's well past time that I applied the same solution to Microsoft that worked so well in her case Tuesday, February 23, AM. Thanks a lot!!! Safe mode worked fine b4. Thursday, February 25, AM. For what it is worth, I experienced the same slowdown on switching users and loging in After about 7 minutes, the desktop would come up normally.
Once the mappings were deleted, the laptop went back to its very quick boot sequence. Shouldn't have to do it this way, but it does solve the issue. Sunday, March 7, AM. Saturday, March 27, AM.
Edited by arsalk Sunday, April 4, PM spelling mistakes :p. Sunday, April 4, PM. Monday, April 12, AM. Hope this helps someone out there. Wednesday, April 21, PM. Friday, April 23, PM. I'm getting a black screen with only the pointer which moves as I move my mouse.
Ctrl-alt-delete does not work. This started happening yesterday after I got a window that said that AVG had updated and needed to restart the computer Black screen after that. I can run in safe mode and from there have run virus and malware scans which come up as 0.
I restored to a point a couple of days back So I deleted AVG to see if that would do it I have booted from the Windows disc and run both the recovery tool and memory diagnostic tool I tried the prevx. Hmm I think that's all I've tried. I don't know what else to do except a reformat and I'm not finding info on the internet on how to do that for Windows 7 while in safe mode.
I'm willing to reformat at this point if I can find out how to do it. Sunday, April 25, AM. Monday, April 26, AM. Thursday, April 29, PM. Friday, April 30, PM. I am using Windows 7 64bit Ultimate. Sunday, May 2, AM. Win 7 Home Premium 32 bit.
Sunday, May 2, PM. I feel obligated to report that I did have a Windows 7 Ultimate machine that was suffering from the "black desktop" with no icons or pearl and an explorer window with My Computer and the like. After rebooting, the desktop had been restored. Wednesday, May 5, AM. I have to go on my iPhone for this :'. Wednesday, May 5, PM.
BUT, login into a local account worked allways to my suprise! Friday, May 7, AM. Any other suggestions??? Sunday, May 9, PM. Hi, Having a similar problem.
Is this the same issue? Monday, May 10, AM. Roy, It is unclear if you were answering me Monday, May 10, PM. Tuesday, May 11, AM. Thanks Roy I did the fix and so far have not had the problem , but it is too early to declare it fixed. Thursday, May 20, PM. Click on the winlogon folder Now in the right hand panel click on shell.
Saturday, June 5, PM. Hi Hi, This works, however every time you start up, you need to run a new task and explorer. Hi, This works, however every time you start up, you need to run a new task and explorer. Monday, June 7, AM. Tuesday, June 8, AM. I realize that some of these posts are older and probably dont relate to the silverlight issue but if anyone is recently having this problem with Windows 7, try it.
Thursday, June 10, PM. Friday, June 25, PM. Saturday, June 26, PM. I used the fix from Prevx and it works. Thanks Brian. Monday, June 28, AM. Scott Howard 0. I am testing the registry adjustment. Monday, June 28, PM. Thursday, July 1, AM. Sunday, July 4, PM. Cole 0. Sunday, July 11, PM.
Wednesday, July 14, PM. Friday, July 16, PM. Many thanks for posting your solution. Saturday, July 17, PM. Things seemed to be fine,I said to myself restart now that all updates are done,and thats all she wrote. Black screen with everything i do. Computer just won't advance,if i try f8 it sticks if i try from a disk it stcks,If i try in safe mode it sticks without performing any task.
I tried the disk i have for it the same thing happens,I tried a new drive new video card and get the same results. How can i recover at all if it won't advance!? I'm sure i could recover if it booted to the desktop but that aint happening. I even tried Suse Linux but it freezes on setup also,I fear that this computer is good for nothing but parts if i can't solve this. I just can't believe the Office did it ,if i didn't see it with my own eyes ,and i downloaded it from Microsoft ,I've used hacked versions and this never happened, go figure Sunday, July 25, PM.
Thx Wolflead Just like that delete the Shell item through the regedit. BINGO it worked perfect till now. Friday, July 30, PM. I now have 18 'important' updates available and can't install any of them.
I just don't know what else to try and I hate not being able to update my system. Any and all opinions, perspectives, and thoughts are appreciated! I tried just deleting the 'Shell' key and rebooting rather than deleting and then re-creating it with an entry of 'explorer. That worked for 3 updates I selected so I am cautiously optimistic.
I am applying the remaing updates 15 I think to see what happens. So, I restored back to the previous update and it works again. Saturday, July 31, AM. Restart Computer Into Normal Mode.. Sunday, August 1, AM. Hello Linda, My problem is that I cannot access safe mode. Have a good day, LORI. Tuesday, August 3, PM. Would recommend To Call Hp Techsupport and get ur issue taken care right away Friday, August 13, AM. Of all the things I've tried and tried.. Saturday, August 14, PM.
Thank you Samir it's working for me!!! Friday, August 20, PM. This works perfectly :!!!! Tuesday, August 24, PM.
The Bottom Line here is There is no fix or cure Sunday, September 5, PM. I hope you are wrong Because I have just taken delivery of 3 Alienware laptops within 3 days Sunday, September 12, AM. Thanks man. Wednesday, September 22, PM. Ceasar FreeTech cesabarre. Thursday, September 23, AM. Edited by jonli Friday, September 24, PM alert me when someone respond to this. Friday, September 24, PM.
I've have Sophos, and I am getting popup from it every 5 minutes. Sophos did quarantine it but I guess user authorized it. Saturday, September 25, PM. Hello, this discussion is about one year old. I didn't find here real fix All patches installed. Can somebody share an experience in W7 in domaine environment. Miles Davis. Friday, October 1, PM.
Monday, October 11, PM. Wednesday, October 13, AM. Need to check the link. Wednesday, October 13, PM. Friday, October 22, PM. Tuesday, October 26, PM. Tuesday, November 2, PM. Wednesday, November 3, AM. I have a very similiar problem and have not been resolved yet. I have a Dell E with windows 7 64 bit. It is brand new and I received it just 5 days ago. Who can help and many thanks.
Tuesday, November 16, PM. Wednesday, November 17, PM. Shell editing is the perfect answer. Saturday, November 20, PM. This worked for me Thanks for offering the solution.
Sunday, November 21, PM. Turned off Trend Micro. This fixed our issue in this particular case after trying the third party fix, restore points, and repair from Windows 7 disc did not resolve. Monday, November 22, PM. Sunday, December 5, PM.
Thursday, December 9, PM. Just now I have resolved the problem by fixing the blackscreen. If you have logged in the windows and run the explorer. Then you simply download the following, run and reboot the pc to fix the problem. If haven't logged in to the windows. Start the pc and logon. Saturday, December 25, AM. Thanks for posting, you've save me a lot of trouble!
Wednesday, January 5, PM. When you locate cmd. This scans your system files looking for errors, takes a minute then asks for a reboot. Problem solved for me, thanks to this guys information. Sunday, January 23, PM. Thursday, January 27, PM. What the heck guys? There needs to be a fix for this! I'm just going to boot with UBCD and copy the data off and re-image it. Tuesday, February 1, AM. Saturday, February 5, AM. Hey Perfect, Don't listen to anyone else here no offense but I was looking for a problem of my own with a game I have and saw yours on google I have this problem sometimes too.
The step are as follows to make sure : 1. Processes 3. End process explorer. Enter explorer. Press Enter 7. Sunday, February 6, PM. Monday, February 21, AM. Thursday, February 24, PM. I started having this problem Mid Feb. Uninstalled framework and logon times have gone back to normal. Thanks Alex. Friday, February 25, AM. I got this problem after breaking my boot sector and getting the missing bootmgr screen.
Doing a system restore from the windows install disk brought back my bootsector but also this problem. Sunday, February 27, PM. Tuesday, March 8, PM. Windows 7 Ent on a Lenovo X Tried the reg hack And yet I am still getting the black screen of death Any other ideas?
Thursday, March 10, AM. My issues started sometime after the installation of W7 SP1. My next step is to try the shell fixes mentioned above. I'll post an update tonight. Tuesday, March 15, PM. I got a black screen. I had an image on second hard drive, just recovered it and all good. Thursday, March 17, PM. There are a lot of great ideas here but what is Microsoft's solution to this problem? I have a brand new machine, blank hard drive and all.
I install Win7 and everthing is fine. But when I run the updates, that's when I get the blank screen. I've reinstalled the OS 4 times and still have the same problem. I've concluded that it's an update that is causing the problem but which one? I'm seeing 54 updates. Saturday, March 26, PM. Thursday, March 31, PM. Awesome man. You totally saved my day! I dunno how I've gotten myself into everything was running just normal, suddenly the notebook shut down in a hard way and then on start, all I could do was just staring into black screen.
As many users experienced, no task manager was working for me, center of ease was crashing I've even created new liveID to tell you this..
Sunday, April 3, AM. Monday, April 4, PM. Wednesday, April 6, PM. I though my computor was fried for good. Wednesday, April 13, PM. It works for my Windows Ultimate screen black-out problem. Thanks a lot! Very good solution! Simple and it really works!
Thursday, April 14, PM. Hello Brian, Thanks for the detailed explanation. I tried to see if there is a system restore point, none of them were there. Thanks, Dave. Monday, April 18, PM. Tuesday, April 19, AM. I finally figured it out. I'm currently using the onboard SVGA connection. In either case, it does not work. Thursday, April 21, PM. My thanks to everyone here to brought some sanity back to my life Got the Black Screen, and did all the kinds of things the rest of you did So assumed W7 did not load properly.
Reloaded it, ready to start over. But along the way again, got the black screen. I did notice that just as it went dark the Windows chime sounded, so on a flyer, I assumed the 'password' screen might be open in the dark. More rebooting in all variants of 'safe' to no avail Right clicked in the middle of the desktop and got a window with choices: view, sort, refresh Next window gave me "output to:" choice I instead checked "monitor" and presto chango my desktop appeared.
Now if I were a betting man, I'd have to think this may be a root problem MS has not addressed. Though I have no idea whatsoever what the difference between a monitor and digital display For now I'm a happy camper For now, I owe myself a cold beer!
Proposed as answer by ahki Sunday, April 24, PM. Friday, April 22, PM. Sunday, April 24, PM. This may be irrelevant, but I waited several minutes before I logged onto my user. I experience the 'black screen of death' when I log onto my account straight after start up. Problem of the monitor 4. Mess up in Registry Editor 5. New installed software lead to the black screen 6. Incorrect settings in system or monitor. More about Renee Passnow. Whole password reset process takes only 4 simple steps without damaging data inside!
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But what are the reasons which could lead to black screen? Please check the connection of the power cable of monitor as well as the monitor and the video card.
Then please have a check of the connection of other hardware. Besides, please move the mouse or press the keyboard to check the status of the monitor. Method 2: Reset Winsock in Safe Mode.
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