Black screen of death in vista

[dsawan 624]

Hi folks. I am sure you have heard of this beofre and I tried troubleshooting but still cant fix this. I get the black screen with no destop icons excpet the taskbar and start menu. I cant access folders or go into c drive. it happens in safe and normal windowws modes. i ran antivirus and no go. i have avast which runs in realtime and was updated today. i tried vista recovery dsik to repair windows and no go there. i am able to get internet and email as i write this. it was working fine around a few hrs back. All i was doing was burning sf2 files to cd to backup. My hardrive still has 10GB disk space. I dont know what else? any advice here?

[+EricJ 4,254]

Did you try and do CTRL ALT DEL and go to Start Task Manager, then go to New Task.. and type in "explorer.exe" (without the quotations?) Sometimes explorer crashes and that happens

[dsawan 624]

Hi, yep tried that and no go. However, i was able to create a new user account and now i have icons from desktop. programs are still there including sf1 and 2 and all other games.However, Everything that I downloaded form net is not in the new user icon. I created a user account with admin privileges. The old one without is still there but I still get the black screen on tha one but all my files are inaccessible. i also nloticed 2 Microsoft updates were installed on the 20th. I wonder if this is a cause because off the net users reported that Microsoft security updates were causing problems or black screen. Does anyone else have this or could access their old user accounts. this is only soilution i know of but all the files I dowloaded for games or izarc files are now nonaccesible.

[+EricJ 4,254]

Well I have SP1, and so far no black screen of death. I had SP2 a year ago, but I decided that it wasn't worth the effort of all the problems it was creating. Don't know if that is the issue, but other than what I suggested, I'm not sure myself.

[dsawan 624]

Hi, Looks like I got it back but had to do a net search. found an articel. It said to hit left shift key 5 times and you get a box that takes you to ease of access link. from there you can get to desktop and turn off Windows error reporting and 2 other windows reporting items. Apparently those were causing it. if I find article again, I post here. this raised my bloodpresure above normal and lost gaming time. Microsoft shd be held responsible for this besides giving us windows 7. Need some kinda compensation,preferably monetary. The average pc user should not have to go thru this.

 

Found it! here is link so you guys dont have to suffer. Admin please make a sticky!

 

http://www.betanews.com/article/Tracking-Vistas-elusive-Black-Screen-of-Death/1245254312