Vista - Vista boot Stuck on a black screen with a mouse cursor

I would recommend a clean vista install.
try Back Up Data without Booting to Vista if you have imp data.

I had the same problem with a friends vista laptop, After login black
screen with mouse only. Even safe mode was the same.
Finally traced the fault to services,
1. start vista in safe mode with command prompt
2. type msconfig and select diagnostic start up
3. Restart computer. If all has gone well you should able to see your
screen
4. Select or find `Services`. In my case all services bar none had
been
disabled. It may be labourious but you have to switch them all on
again,
Automatic or manual depending on your particular requirements. As
an xp
owner i had to switch them on by referring to xp services window.
But it
worked and my friend can tweak the services at her leisure now.
Hope this helps someone

AMIGAGOD


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I have seen this problem a few times and have fixed it by removing the
UpperFilter and LowerFilter registry keys for the CDROM drive. This
won't work for everyone, but it's worth a shot.

This article explains which keys to erase but not how to do them if you
can't get into Windows.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929461

What I did was:
1.Boot to the VISTA recovery/repair console (whether off of a DVD/CD or
if you can do it straight from the hard drive).
2.Run command prompt from the main menu of the and type "regedit"
(without the quotes).
3. Click on the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE once so it is highlighted.
4. Click File, Load Hive. Browse to the "C:\Windows\system32\config"
folder and highlight the "system" file (this is the system hive of the
registry for the computer) and click Open/OK.
5. Name the hive "sys hive" (it doesn't actually matter what you name
it, just don't name it the same as another hive) and hit ok.
6. Navigate to the hive you just created under the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
and you will see keys under it called ControlSetxx (xx usually being
1,2,3 or another low #).

Following the Microsoft Article, under each of those keys do the
following steps 7-11.
7. Locate, and then click the following registry subkey:
ControlSetxx\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}.
8. In the right pane, right-click UpperFilters (if present), and then
click Delete.
9. Click Yes to confirm the removal of the UpperFilters registry entry.
10. In the right pane, right-click LowerFilters (if present), and then
click Delete.
11. Click Yes to confirm the removal of the LowerFilters registry
entry.
12. Navigate back up so the "sys hive" is highlighted again and click
File, Unload Hive.
13. Close regedit and restart the computer.

Hopefully this helps someone because it sure helped me!


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I have a similar problem, where Windows will load Vista, I will log in, but I'll just get a black screen and a cursor. Thankfully, I could use CTRL + ALT + DEL. My temporary solution has been to select the running explorer.exe process and select "end process", and then go back to applications and run explorer.exe again.

I have a hunch my problem, at least, has to do with DLL corruptions/missing files, but best of luck to you all. Hopefully my solution will work for some.

If this is a laptop unplug every thing then power on this worked for me


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Dears,

A simple solution to resolve this black MS screen follow the below steps:

1- Run Vista with safe mode command prompt
2- Type “msconfig” and hit Enter key,
3- select “Diagnostic Sartup” option, click on Apply then OK
4- System will ask restart the PC, choose yes,
5- System will start logging off but it will stuck at this stage, force your PC to shutdown by pressing and holding on the power button until it is off
6- Start your PC “et Voila” it will work

Note:
- it is possible that some of your services will not start or function properly (this is an other problem)
- This solution tested on Vista Home Premium 32bit OS

I ran into this issue on a customer's machine. There are a lot of
theories about what causes this such as a bad driver or a faulty
registry entry. Some think its as simple as a screen saver, or bad ram.


If you have data on your PC you must recover and are unable to restore
from a backup do the following:

Reset your computer and hold down the F8 key while booting up, you can
select the first option. I think it was called "repair computer". This
will bring up a graphical interface. If you select DOS Command Prompt
option you should still be able to copy files out of your hard drive.
Then I would just reformat the computer (last option on the graphical
interface). Once you have reformatted, reinstall your programs, and
transfer the your files back onto the PC.

The DOS command I used was XCOPY. If you have a portable hard drive
you can just plug it into one of the USB ports and backup your whole
computer. This might take a while(overnight). To do this you must
determine what drive your portable hard drive is. Try using the
command: vol e: if that doesn't bring up info about your portable, try
j, k, d, and just go through the alphabet until you find it. Then once
you know what drive letter it is, type the following to copy the entire
c: drive to your portable:
XCOPY /h/i/c/k/e/r/y c:\ e:\"hard drive backup folder"
This will copy the entire c drive. All files, folders, subfolders etc.
onto the drive letter e (replace e with the appropriate drive letter).

For more computer assistance check out my website: www.attoworks.com


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defrag wrote:
SNIPI keep typing apt-get install Vista, and all I get is :

death@newsgroup-x:~$ sudo apt-get install Vista
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package Vista
death@newsgroup-x:~$

What the fudge?

"defrag" <defrag.41bbnb@newsgroup> wrote in message news:defrag.41bbnb@newsgroupHave you ever hit F8 while booting ?
There is no graphical interface or ' reformat ' option.

If you hit the F8 key while booting you get a list of options. With the
Vista OS if you select the first option, it brings up a graphical
interface. This is what I said previously and it is an accurate
statement.


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