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
- reboot your pc into Safemode
- Run msconfig
- Under the general tab, click SELECTIVE STARTUP and disable the first two items there.
- Click apply (you may need to recheck selective start up) and then Ok, you’ll be asked to reboot
- 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)
- Go to Control Panel > administrative tools, then to SERVICES
- 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)
- Set every item to automatic (But dont start any of them yet aside from the ones that were already running)
- 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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