Vista - Windows Vista Black Screen after login

I am getting a black scrren with the cursor and alot of activity on the hard
drive after I login. The users profile does does not load. I am able to
login and the profile loads when user safe mode or I disable or remove all
network connection including wireless.

Thanks

I would recommend that you run a scan on your machine. If you have a lot
of network activity on the machine when you logon, chances are you might
have unwanted things on the machine like malware, rootkits, virus, etc.

Joseph W. Conway, MCSE
Windows Server Group

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

I scan is a good idea, and should be attempted first. Another option is to manually check your registry for hijacked entries.

Caution: Editing the registry is always dangerous if you don't know what you're doing. Incorrectly applying the changes I'm about to mention could render your system unbootable. If you're even marginally unsure of what to do, then don't. Don't do anything that isn't explicity mentioned here. Don't make a stuffup and then come back blaming me.


Start REGEDIT by pressing WINDOWS+R, typeing REGEDIT and pressing enter.
In the left pane Navigate to the key "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon"
In the right pane, the following entries should have these values:

• Shell=explorer.exe
• UserInit=C:\Windows\system32\userinit.exe,

If the above values are different, then you must correct them. These entries are hidden from programs such as msconfig, and are thus easy targets for malware authors to "embed" ther stuff in a place that cannot easily be removed.

I have the same problem... I log in, i get a black screen with only my mouse cursor, and that's it. Nothing happens, if i press crtl-alt-delete i get the correct screen and i can choose options there, but if i choose task manager i get returned to the black screen.

Can log on in safe mode, and that works normal, but have not been able to fix it.

Can't log in when removing network connections and wireless, that's a difference though.

Registry keys are as above... correct, i assume

Hi, hope someone can help, I carnt even post a message on this site to get
help so please accept my apologies as I dont know the answer to your
question. But can you help me to post a question as I am having trouble with
my screen, it is to large for my monitor i have to scroll side to side and up
and down to be able to see one page. Please help
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"unknown" wrote:

teady594 wrote:
Change your display resolution.

MS Windows Help - Change Screen Resolution in Vista:
http://tinyurl.com/2nnoue

Malke
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MS-MVP
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
Don't Panic!

I think this will work fine.

I have the same issue...black screen after login with only the mouse cursor visible. I have a home server in which I utilize a domain. Though I dont think this is an issue what i think the issue is, is the login account is corrupted some how. The reason i say this is, if i login locally i have no issues, if i login to the domain with different account no issues. so i would suggest to those of you still having issues to create another account under safe mode if it is a local account. If it is a domain account, create another account on the server.

edit:
Apparently the video drivers in the user were corrupted. I went into safe mode and reinstalled the video drivers and im back into my user account. It appears there are many varriants of the blank screen being caused from many different issues. This one apparently had to do with my video drivers being corrupted in the user i was using.