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Old 04-26-2008   #1 (permalink)
bob_jenkins


 
 

blank screen in Vista (except toolbar)

My Vista Ultimate had been running for about a week, then suddenly I
had only a black screen. Except for the toolbar at the bottom, and
start menus, and dialog boxes still displayed. Apparently all the
applications were running fine. It's just actual windows that
wouldn't display. I poked at it some, and it turned into just a white
screen (still showing the toolbar).

I right-clicked on the toolbar and selected Task Manager. Like dialog
boxes, task manager displayed fine. I had Task Manager list all
processes (which asked for permission, but dialog boxes displayed
OK). And I asked task manager to "End Process" dwm, the desktop
window manager. Voila, all my windows showed up again! Except they
aren't semi-transparent anymore.

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Old 04-26-2008   #2 (permalink)


Vista Ultimate x32
 
 

Re: blank screen in Vista (except toolbar)

Hi,
And so, would you like to get it back? Go to Control Panel\Personalization and make all the necessary changes you need.

Cheers!
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Old 04-26-2008   #3 (permalink)


Vista Ultimate x32
 
 

Re: blank screen in Vista (except toolbar)

Care about the lack of memory resouces that caused that problem, im sure you got so plenty of stuff starting automaticaly with windows when you switch on the pc, that you get blue screens like that, its the name for it. Should you discover other habits the way you´re pushing the pc, couse the pc its fine. Deactivate everything that truly you don´t need.

Bye.
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