How to FIX Windows 7/8/10 Black Screen of Death With Cursor After Login/Boot So essentially what happens is that you log in and you're greeted with a black screen and a mouse cursor - nothing else. Today i started experiencing a problem after login i get a black screen and i cant do anything not even task manager i have no disk nothing its a new computer and i cant return it because i lost the receipt only thing i rely can do is just move the mouse but nothing els i tryed booting a virus scanner with my usb before login but then it just takes me 2 my desktop and no black screen plz. Jun 30, 2011 windows 7 black screen after login, no desktop show up. And multiple monitor settings. Uninstall and reinstall the graphic driver. Ctrl+alt+del will allow me go to the regular screen which I could go to the task manager, switch user, lock the pc. On my Vista 64 home machine I had this black screen also. It started AFTER I. But the mysterious fact remains that some MSE users running Vista did not experience this issue after the MSE 4.9 upgrade - and as far as I know, no Windows 7 users reported black screen after login. Windows Vista Black Screen After Login - Resolved Posted in Windows - Last updated Jun. 28, 2010 I have been having issues with my Windows Vista desktop giving me a black screen after logging in and not being able to do anything at all other than switching the computer off and on again.
My system will only boot correctly if I enable VGA mode. On a regular boot the OEM logo comes up, then the Windows logo, but after that I only get a black screen.
Windows tries to set the display to its configured settings right after displaying the Windows logo, and just before displaying the login screen or desktop.
Nine times out of ten if that’s when your display stops, it’s simply because your display settings are set to something that your monitor can’t handle. Depending on what it’s not supporting, some monitors respond by going black … others just go “crazy” displaying unintelligible gibberish.
If that’s the problem, it’s fairly easy to fix.
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First things first … let’s get you a bootable system.
Boot in safe mode – press F8 when the Windows loader presents you with the 30 second list of choices, and then select “Safe Mode” as your boot option.
Right click on the desktop and click Properties, and then on the Settings tab.
Now click and drag the Screen Resolution slider to the far left … you want the smallest settings that your screen will support. Typically that’ll be 640×480, or 800×600.
Also change the Color Quality dropdown to 256 colors, or whatever is lowest. (You probably don’t need to go as low as 16 colors, if that’s presented as an option.)
Now, click on the Advanced button, and then the Monitor tab of the resulting dialog box
A dialog box is a window that appears on top of a main application or other window (or occasionally no window at all) requesting user input. Dialog boxes are characterized by one or more input fields, such as edit boxes, check boxes, selection lists and others, an “OK” or equivalent button, and a “Cancel” button. Dialog boxes may or may not have title bars across the top, and while usually movable, they are most often not resizable. If presented by an application, a dialog box is typically smaller than the application window, so as to appear to be a part of that application. The term “dialog” refers to the metaphor that the computer is having a conversation or dialog with the user, and is asking for some form of input and processing that input when supplied. (Click on the term for full definition.)
'>dialog box. Change the Screen refresh rate to 60 Hertz.
OK your way back out, and reboot
A reboot is the process of shutting down all running software on a machine, including the operating system itself, and then immediately reloading as if the machine had just been powered on. (Click on the term for full definition.)
'>reboot your machine. If these setting were the source of the problem, it should now be able to boot normally. You may not like the screen settings, but at least you now have a place to start.
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Start experimenting with the settings to see what does, and does not, work with your monitor.
If the display is still blank or gibberish, the my recommendation is to once again boot into Safe Mode, possibly Safe Mode with networking, and update your video display drivers. It’s likely that they are incorrect or otherwise broken.
A place to start … start what? Start experimenting with the settings to see what does, and does not, work with your monitor.
I tend to start with the screen resolution. Once again right click on the desktop and click Properties, then Settings, and then drag the Screen Resolution slider a notch or two to the right to increase your display resolution. Now click Apply. It should change the resolution and display a small message box asking if you want to accept this setting. If you don’t respond within some time, it assumes you can’t see it, so it resets to the previous setting. The lesson here? If the screen goes blank or you can’t read it, wait at least one minute before doing anything. The problem may resolve itself, and you’ll be able to say “well, that resolution doesn’t work”, and move on to try another.
If, after a full minute or more the screen remains blank or unreadable, you’ll have to reboot into safe mode, as we did originally, to restore your setting. (Why might this happen? Windows “remembers” and doesn’t bother to ask you if you reset to something that you previously said worked. If you mistakenly said “this works” when it didn’t … perhaps by random keyboarding while the display was blank … well, that could be how we got here in the first place.)
You can repeat this process of trial and error for each of the screen resolution, the color depth and the screen refresh rate. (For CRT displays, you really do want the refresh rate to be as high as your monitor supports.)
I have realized that corruption in the Windows registry can lead to all sorts of problems. Some of you may have faced this problem, that after you logged on to your computer, you might have seen just a blank screen. No desktop, no Taskbar! This may happen because explorer.exe which is supposed to start-up automatically, did not start at all. While some registry error might have caused this issue, it is certainly possible the problem could be due to some virus infection too, which blocks the Windows File Explorer from running.
In such situations where your Windows 10/8/7/Vista explorer.exe fails to start-up automatically on every boot, here are a few steps you can try out:
Windows explorer.exe does not start
1) Start Windows in Safe Mode and see if your explorer.exe will start in safe mode. If it does, then obviously something is interfering with its normal start in regular mode. I suggest you scan for malware in safe mode, remove infections if any and reboot. If you need to manually troubleshoot, you may perform a Clean Boot.
2) Check if any add-ons may be interfering with its starting up. Often, 3rd-party shell extensions can cause Explorer to crash on particular actions. Several programs add items to the right-click context menu. To see them in detail, you may download the freeware utility ShellExView. More here.
3) See if a System Restore helps you.
4) Open command prompt as admin and Run sfc /scannow.
5) Back up your Windows Registry first, and then open regedit and navigate to the following :
In Winlogon, on the right side, you should notice a value called “Shell“. In the RHS Pane, ensure that the default string value of Shell is explorer.exe.
Double-click this value. Make sure only ‘explorer.exe‘ is given the value of Shell. If you see anything else there, simply delete it and leave only ‘explorer.exe’ .
Exit the Registry Editor.
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Restart the computer for the changes to take effect.
Related read: Windows File Explorer crashes, freezes or has stopped working.
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