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Black screen after boot
First of all, I don't know if this is the right forum, but none of the other forums looked like the right one so I posted here. Feel free to move it or whatever. Also couldn't find the answer anywhere else so sorry if this is a repost.
Okay, so last night I tried installing Microsoft Security Essentials, and upon reboot, the windows login screen is okay, but after logging in, it takes me to a black screen. No taskbar, no desktop icons, no start menu. I AM able to ctrl+alt+del and run programs from task manager (such as msconfig, services, etc).The mouse cursor also is available. I was able to get MSE uninstalled but still no luck, even in safe mode.Still a black screen with no taskbar, no start menu, no desktop icons... it's as if the desktop itself can't open. Also i currently have no antivirus programs as I uninstalled them before trying to install MSE. System Recovery didn't seem to work either. Any ideas as to what to do to resolve the issue?
Also, I tried running explorer.exe but that brought up "Computer" (showing all the drives and such) instead of running explorer.exe. Something wrong there perhaps?
I can't post my computer specs since I can't access my pc to type this, but I'll repost my specs from my last thread.
Thanks in advance
Last edited by MechaGigan; 13 May 2013 at 22:23.