Black screen after Log- In

> My computer recently started doing the same thing (if after log-in means
> after the Welcome screen). I found a solution on one of the threads on
> this
> forum.
>
> At the black screen, hit control-alt-delete to bring up the menu screen.
> Click the item for starting Task Manager. Find explorer.exe on the
> processes
> tab; right click it to bring up the menu; and click End Process. After
> explorer closes: click File on the menu bar; click New; type in
> explorer.exe;
> and click OK. On my computer, that brings up the desktop.
>
> "Mark K" wrote:

But what do you do when you can't access *anything* but the black screen and
useless cursor? That's the situation on my nephews' computer. I can't seem
to get it to do anything but show the black screen with cursor. None of the
F8 options works any differently.

--Mike-- Chain Reaction Bicycles
www.ChainReactionBicycles.com


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> My computer recently started doing the same thing (if after log-in means
> after the Welcome screen). I found a solution on one of the threads on
> this
> forum.
>
> At the black screen, hit control-alt-delete to bring up the menu screen.
> Click the item for starting Task Manager. Find explorer.exe on the
> processes
> tab; right click it to bring up the menu; and click End Process. After
> explorer closes: click File on the menu bar; click New; type in
> explorer.exe;
> and click OK. On my computer, that brings up the desktop.
>
> "Mark K" wrote:
>
>> Intermittently I get a blank screen after log-in, just a cursor, then
>> have to
>> shut down and try again, then seems to boot ok, sometime it takes 2 or 3
>> times, then sometimes it boots ok for a week, New Gateway running Vista
>> Premium any reason for this? Have Dual core Intel processor. McAfee
>> Sercurity, running a few gadgets.