Black screen on startup after pceu virus fix

Did you customize a lot to that faulty account? I mean WORD/EXCEL/Internet explorer settings, background, that kind of things? Is it problem that acoount is deleted? (don't delete it yet!)

f1rz3n said:

I do have a cursor yes.

btw, the values in Winlogon in regedit are a bit different from yours:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]
"ExcludeProfileDirs"="AppData\\Local;AppData\\LocalLow;$Recycle.Bin"
"BuildNumber"=dword:00001db0 (7600)
"FirstLogon"=dword:00000000 (0)
"ParseAutoexec"="1"

does this help at all?

That part of registry is fine. Normally cancelling the explorer process removes the system tray and all desktop icons as well. Rerunning explorer displays them again. Of course this is read somewhere from registry...don't know where.

Is that cursor really a text cursor? So not a mouse pointer?

f1rz3n said:

my appologies, I just made a new admin account and it seems to be having the same problem, blank blue screen with cursor

Be more accurate please, I try to help. So it is not a user problem. All accounts have same problem?

Is it a mouse cursor or text cursor? And can you type text there?

f1rz3n said:

Yes all accounts have the same problem and it is a mouse cursor, I can't type there

So a mouse pointer.... no idea why many call it a cursor. pffff

Try a "startup repair" and do "chkdsk/f c:" for elevated command prompt

If disk is fine and will find nothing. Even startup repair will most likely find anything. Though give it a try.
Most websites say it's caused by the "shell" key in registry I told you before. But it isn't in your case. All users have the problem so isn't cause by a user registry setting, but a system setting.


Are you sure it started with this problem just after virus removal?