Windows vista goes black after login

Updated display drivers may resolve this issue. You can determine the manufacturer of the display adapter by following these steps:. The final solution is to discover what layer of security software is causing the temporary blocking, which renders the screen black and therefore unusable. That layer of software would need to be uninstalled or updated to prevent the blocking condition in the Desktop Window Manager.

One symptom that has been noted if this condition is true is that the DWM, or Desktop Window Manager process will consume an ever increasing amount of memory, as displayed in Task Manager. Have tried everthing listed here, can not even do clean install, accepts product key and tells me I can not do a full install, possibly because it's an upgrade version?

I've had the same problem today on a friend's computer. Here are the steps I took. Opened Program and Features in Windows Vista and sorted by install date. The lastest installations were Quicktime, Itune, and some form of Apple Update.

Went back into MSconfig and chose Normal Startup, this should re-enable all services and startup items. Disable any trace of Apple Quicktime and Itune that were left on the startup list. Hello I have the same problem but I'm unable to use the run or command line in the safe mode because it does not appear Even the sticky key opens an explorer page but hangs, and cannot use it to run commands.

Any suggestions? Thank you. I was able to delete some temp file and Im in the process of running a disk check any ideas on why i cant change admin setting and why group policy is in effect I m about ready to save what I can and reboot with windows xp if it will let me any suggestions. Ok so this is what you do. When your screen logs on and everything turns black except your mouse hit the shift key 5 times. There should be an error message that comes up asking if you want to use the sticky key..

Once that comes up there is a option to select yes or no. Right above them two is another option that is under lined. Click that link. Once the next screen appears it will look like if you went to start then computer. Go to the drop down list right next to the little computer or back and forward icon , once this has been done click on Computer, Local Disk, and then select Windows.

Locate the file Explorer If your computer is working real good you can just do a search and locate Explorer. Double click explorer and your desktop will show. Once all this is done go update your graphics card, run a virus scan and try and reboot if not do this process over and look for some settings under Msconfig. Hope this helps you In normal mode after loging in the screen was balck with a moveable cursor. Starting in Safe mode worked and loaded desktop OK, tried uninstalling the Display adapter driver and restarting in Normal mode - desktop loaded after login, re-installed Display Adapter driver and back to Black screen after login.

Started again in Safe mode and checked event logs - all showing last events several days ago, flushed all event logs and tried another restart in normal mode - everything working again, it appears the machine was hanging every time it tried to write an event back to the event log!

There's a very easy fix for this issue. From here you can check video and resolution settings, uninstall and reinstall video drivers, whatever was the problem. It would also be a good idea to run check disk. Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another process. Would you like to schedule this volume to be checked the next time the system restarts? Hi, the answer is that one of the startup applications or one of the services is knocking out the display drivers.

Your screen may go blank but the OS is still running in the background behind the blank screen. Certainly try to reinstall any drivers you wish as stated by the other messages written on this board.

However, for the majority of users this may not resolve the issue. Start-Run-type in msconfig. Reboot into normal mode ie not safe mode - If you computer launched successfully then one of the many services or applications caused the problem.

Reboot into normal mode ie not safe mode. You have so far eliminated half the processes that could have caused the problem. Keep on going, launching between Normal mode - did your computer start, and Safe mode - what shall I enable and disable next For me it was the "Windows Even Log" service that was interfering. For everyone else it might be a different application or service. You just have to work your way through the long list to identify the culprit. Ok so I dont know if this applies to anyone else with this problem..

But I recently had this issue where right after I logged in to vista my monitor would go black I realized it would actually turn off on me. I did not know what the reason was and thought it was a random update or so I solved it on myside and hoping this will solve others with this quirky problem With my laptop it turned out it had the Screen mode on And now it works great! I know I did not set this mode to screen mode and so that was the reason it was such a mystery to me.

One day I turned it off and then the next day it would go black right after login. So try Toggling the Monitor Mode on your laptops. Office Office Exchange Server. Not an IT pro? Windows Client. Sign in. United States English. Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. Archived Forums. Windows Vista Hardware. Sign in to vote.

We all should keep an eye on this issue, no idea why its happening, as they say maybe after SP1 it will go away, I have not installed SP1 yet, but will update my post if it happens again. And thank you all for the responses. Saturday, August 18, PM. Saja 0. Sunday, December 16, AM. Sunday, August 19, AM. Thursday, August 23, AM. Thursday, August 23, PM. Friday, August 24, AM. Saturday, September 1, AM. Anybody knows about this issue?

It's pretty urgent Saturday, September 15, AM. Saturday, November 3, AM. I cannot even view my accounts to login. Does anyone have any ideas? Tuesday, November 13, PM. Were you ever able to get this figured out? I was also questioning a few things on my computer. I seem to be having a whitescreen when I boot up the computer and it may take a few times rebooting the computer to get it to get to the login menu.

Also after I manage to get to that screen, I log in on any of the profiles and all I get is a window with all my folders and desktop icons, but no start menu, background, etc I recently found out if I open up task mgr and start new task, type in explorer, it only temporarily fixes the problem and goes black if I log out and back on again.

Does anyone have any solutions or suggestions to either of my problems? Monday, November 19, PM. Then please restart the computer. Sometimes new installed software could also lead to black screen in Windows 7. Please think of the software you have installed before you encounter black screen. Then you can uninstall the software in safe mode.

If you can not figure out the software, you can disable the auto-run of third party software. Step 5: Restart your computer. Method 3: Solve with Task Manager. If we end explorer. And it could also lead to black screen after login. Method 4: Update the Video Card Driver. Unstable video card driver could lead to monitor black screen and other abnormal behaviors. Here we can solve these problem by updating the video card driver.

Here is how it goes. Step 3: Restart your computer after update finish. Method 5: Check the Registry. If the Shell value get modified or Registry get wrong, users may encounter black screen or system failure.

After all, you can get some computer checking and repairing utilities there, which would be helpful to you. For instance, some black screen on startup is caused by the drive, and you can easily to fix it by updating it. What if this doesn't help or you even can't access the safe mode? Usually, it's about the problem in your system registry. You need a tool to boot your computer and deal with it. You'll see the boxes of Language, Time and Currency and Keyboard in the next screen.

There are two options on the lower left side. One is "Repair your computer", and the other one is "What to know before installing Windows". Click on the first one: "Repair your computer". Windows will then try to find the installation directory for Vista or Windows 7, depending on what you have.

Next up is a screen with a box called Recovery Options.