Slow Logon...Black screen...Icons refresh!! Win7 64BIT

Hey Britton,

Got me down to 120 seconds and I found a strange entry on my scheduled tasks in ccleaner!! Yes Task At1 shutdown -s.... I know its a shutdown command that you can run from the command prompt...????

Also I had Task {68F598DF-1406-4DF1-9DD6-84AC5B9552A8} C:\Windows\system32\pcalua.exe -a ?C:\Users\Sammy\Desktop\VMware_Install_Cleaner.exe -d C:\Users\Sammy\Desktop
Yes Task {8B9D5F0B-B08F-44C3-ACF5-EC9A07D1E35A} C:\Windows\system32\pcalua.exe -a "C:\Program Files (x86)\Vuze\uninstall.exe"

Got rid of them and my boot time seems faster....I still get the black blank screen...but I don't have it for nowhere near as long as I had it before!!

I'll just be sticking with Ccleaner from now on

Think I'll mark this as solved now...boots so much faster...dont have the black blank screen for as long as I did before I put this thread up.... To all that helped me out..thanks

EzioAuditore....whats the problem now mate? I've done everything that was suggested by all!! it never sorted my problem 100%...but it's better than it was..... If you know something the other members dont...then please share!

Fixed!!! no more icon refresh.... black screen lasts seconds......I found this thread.....What is correct explorer.exe for W7 x64 SP1? How to fix?

I had an outdated version of explorer.exe running in the WOW64bit part of windows...I did the following


Next I search the web and then the MS Support website for "Explorer.exe 6.1.7601.17567" and learned that this file was included in a September 2011 update. The easy thing to do was to download that update and install it, and it did install and appears to have worked i.e. both the files in C:\Windows and C:\Windows\SysWOW64 are now at the proper revision level.

I remain troubled as to how this happened, but for now at least it appears the subject question has been answered (though I can't yet confirm the crashing has stopped) so I will mark this thread as Solved.

copied from the thread posted by maxseven

Thanks