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Vista black screen of death

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Having trouble with Vista? Does starting your PC leave you with only a black screen and a visible cursor? After spending hours searching for a fix I finally combined a couple of fixes and have solved this particular problem. Hope this helps

 

 

  1. reboot your pc into Safemode
  2. Run msconfig
  3. Under the general tab, click SELECTIVE STARTUP and disable the first two items there.
  4. Click apply (you may need to recheck selective start up) and then Ok, you’ll be asked to reboot
  5. When it reboots, you should be able to get into your normal account but most of your services will be stopped (so no internet connection etc)
  6. Go to Control Panel > administrative tools, then to SERVICES
  7. You will notice a long list of your services. You must go on every item in that list where the startup type is set to Disabled and set it to automatic, (Right click, properties)
  8. Set every item to automatic (But dont start any of them yet aside from the ones that were already running)
  9. And this is the most important thing (DO NOT SET Windows Event Log & Windows Event Collector to automatic. Leave these disabled)

 

Restart your pc and it should work fine.

 

 

This is obviously not a fix for all vista problems so may not fix your problem. Sorry

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