Are you the one who is very much worried about the security patches of your Operating System?
Are you the one who is still attached to your Windows XP even after Microsoft has released Vista and Windows 7?
Well! We belong to the same group! :)
But being over paranoid sometimes (well, very rare!) has it's toll!
Spite of having all the unwanted services disabled, running a personal firewall, custom packet filter, two layers of defence, (no antivirus!! :) because of Virtual Systems! :)), you might have taken by surprise after updating the latest patch from Microsoft.
After rebooting, the shell never loaded! A bit of google revealed that the issue has been reportedly affected millions of people and known as the Black Screen of Death!
What's the quick way to fix it?
Here are the steps:
Press Ctrl + Alt + Del! Presto. The logon dialog displays or in some single user systems (task manager loads).
Select File, New Task Run.
Type Explorer.exe
You should be in your desktop right away!
Well, how to fix it?
Run regedit.exe
Navigate to the following key.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
Look for an entry call Shell on the right side panel. Delete it.
Right click, select New - String Value.
Name the key as Shell.
Double Click on the newly created value and type explorer.exe in the value text box.
Close Regedit and reboot. Voila! the issue is solved!
(N.B., You must be the administrator of the system to perform this operation!)
Well, for people who are not so comfortable in editing the registry, try the following program from PrevX which does the same operations programmatically!
The program is available from: http://info.prevx.com/download.asp?GRAB=blackscreenfix
Courtesy: Lifehacker.com
Wishes for a merry Christmas and happy new year!
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
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