Black Screen+Cursor for 30s After Welcome Screen

[Guest]

Vista takes 60 seconds to boot to the "Welcome" screen; after that, it hangs
at a black screen (with a moveable cursor) for another 30 seconds before the
GUI loads.. any ideas?

Stats: 1.6 GHz Core 2 Duo, 1 GB RAM, 160 GB HDD, Intel graphics chipset
(integrated 220-some-odd MB)

 

[Guest]

My computer recently started doing the same thing, and I found a work-around
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.

 

[Malke]

My computer recently started doing the same thing, and I found a work-around
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.

That's an OK workaround but it would be better to find out what is
causing the delay. Do this by doing a clean-boot:

Clean boot in Windows XP - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310353
Clean-boot advanced troubleshooting in Windows XP -
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316434
How to Troubleshoot By Using the Msconfig Utility in Windows XP -
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=310560


Malke

 

[Guest]

In my case, and in most of the other cases I have seen mentioned on this
forum, the computer does not get stuck at the black screen on every boot. I
do not see how you can systematically troubleshoot an intermittent problem
that you do not know will recur on the very next boot.

 

[Malke]

In my case, and in most of the other cases I have seen mentioned on this
forum, the computer does not get stuck at the black screen on every boot. I
do not see how you can systematically troubleshoot an intermittent problem
that you do not know will recur on the very next boot.

Well, you've got to at least try. At least I would, because I like my
computers to work perfectly. Naturally whether you take the time to do
this is your choice. I see that I gave you clean-boot instructions for
XP in error. Here is an updated link:

How to perform a clean boot in Vista and XP -
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/331796


Malke

 

[Guest]

I've optimized my machine's startup via msconfig; I don't know how many
processes are ran on average as all my machines that run XP run 26 processes
tops. Here I'm running 52; I've done a clean boot and the problem still
persists..