When the system hard drive contains file system error or bad sectors, the computer may have problems in accessing and showing desktop saved files, folders. To resolve this issue, you may try below two quick methods to check and repair hard disk errors on your own:.
Click "Tools" under Error-checking, select to scan existing errors in your drive. On Windows 7, select "Automatically fix file system errors and Scan for and attempt recovery of back sectors" and click "Start".
When the scanning and repair process finishes, you can go back to your Desktop to check if the files have been found. Sometimes, when the Desktop icons disappeared on Windows PC, users may also have problems accessing their saved files. Here are some bonus fixes for you to follow and restore the missing Windows icons on your own. Right-click on the desktop, go to View, and uncheck Show desktop icons. That's not the end. It would make all files and folders appear on the left side.
And you can drag and drop them where you need them to be. After this, you can view your Desktop icons and check the saved files again. If the saved files are still missing on the Desktop, go back to Method 1 and apply EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard to scan and restore all your missing files immediately. Brithny is a technology enthusiast, aiming to make readers' tech life easy and enjoyable.
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Can you help us improve? Resolved my issue. Clear instructions. Easy to follow. See if your drive is here. Sometimes, it will be marked as Removable. If it does not contain any partition, you still can see an unallocated space. Step 2. Try the following solutions if your drive does not appear in Disk Management. Do not use USB hubs. The USB hub does not supply enough power for your drive.
You should directly connect the drive to USB port. Plug flash drive into different computers. Create a new simple volume with Disk Management if your drive is marked as an unallocated space. You can right-click the unallocated space, select New Simple Volume from its context menu and follow the instructions on the wizard to finish the pending steps.
Is there any solution for this? I dont want map that drives everytime I login and disconnect every time I logout. And that speed is also very weird like those folder lag. This post is mainly for future people who have this problem who come here. This site page is the first on the search engine, so i think its necessary. Problem : Yesterday i installed RegCure to fix my registry because i was having problems with something else unrelated, and in the end it didnt work.
After it fixed the registry, and i still continued on with my normal computer usage, i never had to turn it off until late at night before going to bed unrelated. The problem was, that the program changed something in the registry, and screwed everything up, and only found out about the problems this after noon when i tried to turn it on. Rebooting didnt help at all either. Symptoms : Computer turns on like normal, i see the windows 7 bootloading screen like normal, and then when it gets to the welcome screen, all i see is the mouse cursor, and everything is just a black screen of death.
Can move mouse. Exact same symptoms with all the safe modes. Fix : Well, i read most of the posts here, all say to get a program. But how can you run a program when you cant even start the operating system right? So what i did, and probably the easiest fix i have ever done, was pop in the Windows 7 CD , booted from it , went to Repair My Computer , and very easily went to System Restore , and restored my computer to the last windows update which was yesterday in the morning, which was great because that was also before i installed RegCure, which was the source of the problems.
Windows loads up exactly perfectly to how i had it. I've had similar problems after 'normal' boot-up. Getting the blue 'Welcome' screen, then a black screen with the moveable mouse pointer, but nothing else.
Emergency reboot is the only option. Sometimes during a reboot, my taskbar comes through, but only partly, giving a 'process hangs' message after a couple of minutes, but nothing happens Funny thing is that my PC boots normally after I disconnect one or more hard drives.
The black screen only started to happen after some updates, but I haven't got a clue which ones. But like I said, when I disconnect one or more drives, I can boot normally no log-on issues, because I deactivated UAC: as the sole user I don't need it. During one particular boot-up, I had the "start windows with a lower screen resolution" option or something in that order , which also made my PC start without the black screen ocurring Try what I did.
Then hit "Action" in the top toolbar When windows has found the re-attatced disk s import them by righ-clicking on the graph-bar of the said disks and choosing "import foreign disk". Should you choose to 'reformat', that's something that you'll have to do while re-installing Windows. You can't format the drive where your operating system is on while the PC is running. That's like trying to lift a lid while standing on it.
Put your Windows disk in the ROM drive and reboot. You'll get a message "hit any button if you want to boot from DVD" and do so. Should you have more partitions on that same drive, don't be alarmed: they won't be touched. The hit the 'view' tab and go through the list to find "show hidden files and folders" and untick "hide protected operating system files". Problem started occurring after some Windows updates don't know which one exactly.
After the login screen I would get a black screen with just the mouse pointer. Could not access Task Manager or anything else. The computer would start up in Safe Mode, but none of the repair options helped, including System Restore. Now my computer starts up normally again. Just make sure to backup your registry first, just in case. I only implemented this suggestion about 30 minutes ago, but I've restarted my machine multiple times so I'm pretty sure this is a solid fix action.
I have the same problem but im able to start programs through the task manager. I also experienced this. The last thing I did to my computer the matches with anything that is mention here was mapping a drive to a SharePoint site. I then had the issue with black screen after login with mouse and the ability to use task manager. I disconnected the mapped drive through regedit Export registry dialog, was able to see the drive, right-click and disconnect , but that did not fix the issue.
Same problem here although I was sure it was a virus. I had clicked an exe file when the file disappeared. Scans showed everything clean. When I rebooted I had the black screen. Tried the Prevx fix and it would only reboot successfully once. Tried the registry fix with same results. I scanned again with Malwarebytes and Microsoft Security Essentials with nothing found. Finally decided to do a Repair-Install. That went fine but still had the black screen.
Then I ran Malwarebytes again and it found trojan. Removed that and rebooted with another black screen. Ran the Prevx fix and this time it fixed it. Spent a lot of time with this one so hopefully this will help someone else. Same exact problem with the regcure thing.. But my problem is I bought the already built computer so I don't have the disc any idea how I might fix it? I have to go on my iPhone for this :' Windows loads up exactly perfectly to how i had it.
Had the same problem on my domain account. Somethimes a reboot helped then after a certain point no more. I tried the 3rd party fix -- unfortunately no luck. I also took a look at the Shell key Having a similar problem.
I never used multiple user accounts in Windows 7, until my wife started screwing up my work. I set up accounts for her and my daughter. Since I did that, I also set my Windows 7, 64 bit screensaver to wake up on the login screen. Seemed to be fine, but twice now, upon moving my mouse to wake up the PC, I got blackscreens.
Every so often the blue wheel spins on the pointer. I have to shut down via power button to fix it. It is unclear if you were answering me Any downside to trying it? I have your solution, it is registy problem, boot up your pc,. Run a new task called regedit. Click on the winlogon folder.
Now in the right hand panel click on shell. The data value should only be explorer. Do this by double clicking on shell and edit the value and hit ok. Restart and thats it! This works, however every time you start up, you need to run a new task and explorer. Try this I got it from Microsoft and it worked great on my PC. Hi everybody, I'm having trouble with my windows 7 right now, it's an ultimate version, I just shut it off last night and opened it up this morning.
Everything seems to be normal util I loged in to my user. The old things happend after that, only the black screen showed up and an window pop up which shows "my computer" the mouse can be moved regularly. I tried several ways to get it back to normal: reboot. I ended the "dwm. That window seems like the only hope I could access the computer which pop up everytime I reboot. I can use that pop up window to go online and go control panel and all that, I can also run all the program just like normal.
Everythings sames normal besides I cannot get the normal screen, no starup, no destop icons, no quick lunch. I could change my background picture, but I cannot use right click on the background. Does anybody know how to solve this? I really don't want to reinstall the windows again which I just did a week ago. I will appreciate any solution to this problem.
Dont know if it has been solved but I had the same problem and this is what I found. Download Malewarebytes do a quick scan, you will probably find a file named hjkshell. Clean that and you should be good. I have your solution, it is a registy problem. Boot up your pc,. Took me ages to find the root cause, check every piece of hardware including monitors and every driver, placed calls with Microsoft and the Card Supplier, but by just selecting "The Basic Theme" in the display panel the problem went away, happy days.
If you are having a Black Screen issue and its not happening in Safe Mode its got to be a driver issue, from safe mode, try selecting Basic Theme and see if it works for you. Jim, you are a life saver. I was going insane trying every other solution proposed - sure enough, this was it.
I had the same symptoms as some here. Windows 7 Ultimate x64 black screen when logging in as administrator and could not login as unprivileged users at all. The mouse is displayed and can be moved. The hacker messed up though and garbled the data with an invalid path so userinit. In general the black screen means there has been a foul up before explorer.
My desktop got blacked out after loggin in. I tried installing the missing dll but no gain. What I have noticed, is that if I leave my computer alone, sometimes for many hours after the blackscreen with no mouse appears it fixes itself.
The original entry had both explorer. I too trawled through numerous pages, my symptoms were; in both Safe Mode and Normal, after logging in, I was presented with a cursor and the users documents folder. Only by bringing up the taskmanager and running "explorer" would enable everything to run as normal, and the desktop icons and start menu to reappear.
It would be wise to note that the Laptop was infected with various nasties, and woefully behind on Windows Updates. It helps if you can virus scan the hard drive using another machine. You get the gold star my new best friend. I had multiple Windows 7 machines all get the dreaded black screen at the same time.
Nothing made sense until I read your post. I reset the WHS and all is good. Thanks again! Plain english please, for us novices. I actually restored my system to factory condition after days of frustration and trying the sugestions posted. I'm running Vista business. After downloading 3 years worth of updates and reinstalling my programs and docs, I'm still getting the black screen.
How does one reset a WHS? The problem computer shares an internet connection through cat5 home network.
I can't believe no one can pinpoint a cause for this and prescribe a permanent fix, not a work around. This is as bad as trying to install updated flash player. No help from Adobe there. This appears to have been going on for a long time - VERY frustrating. I was amazed when this was the answer to my problem. After two days of doing everything I knew to fix it, searching the web and trying eeverything posted, it came down to this. I don't usually keep Blu-Ray disks in the drive.
I backup files and then store the disks. But I happened to watch a movie at night and it ran longer then I was willing to stay up. So when I started up the following morning I encountered the black screen with only a movable white pointer, and had totally forgotten about the disk in the drive. Infact I tried all the solutions you gave here but none of them helped, except the one that Wolflead6 wrote I am running Windows 7 64 bit edition and every time I try to install a Microsoft update, I get the black desktop after logging in.
I have tried the prevx fix and the registry fix deleting 'shell' and recreating the key. It doesn't work for me unfortunately. Any other suggestions as to what's causing this? There's got to be a lot of Microsoft users experiencing the problem and it seems to have been around since the beta version. The saga continues. Upon installing the remaining 15 updates and rebooting I got the black desktop again. I assumed Windows had re-created the Shell key and opened regedit expected to delete it again.
To my surprise, there was no Shell key. I thought I'd recreate it, reboot and see if it made a difference. It didn't, still got the black desktop. So I deleted the Shell key and rebooted, still got black desktop. I got 3 of the updates installed and now have no Shell key but can't install any more updates without getting the black desktop. There's no Shell key to delete now! Would welcome any more thoughts or ideas.
Any other sources of a fix anybody know of or any place else to go to look for answers? I almost ready to open a ticket with Microsoft but can't stand to spend the money to probably have them tell me to re-install Windows. Got on the phone with Microsoft for about two hours trying a bunch of fixes. At the end of the end, I just did an in place upgrade which has worked perfectly. All my programs, settings, data, etc. My recommendation if you have fix the problem with some of the simple fixes listed here is just do the in place upgrade.
You'll save yourself a lot of troubleshooting and wasted time. My problem is that I cannot access safe mode. My monitor immediately goes to sleep upon booting up the system. I have owned my new HP m desktop for approximately a month now and this just started happening about a week ago.
My operating system is Windows 7. I would appreciate any help I can get. Thank you in advance for taking the time to possibly resolve my problem.
Because I have just taken delivery of 3 Alienware laptops within 3 days As it was Nvidia graphics card thought it may be a driver conflict but no it was joined some one week later by the 2nd Alienware with different software and a Radeon Graphics card.
When the third machine finally arrived it took less than a week to crash out this time it had a different I7 processor so having ruled out Graphics cards and processors and all running different software the only conclusion we can come to is it is the operating system which itself was fine until the updates installed.
We concluded that the first having been manually updated was the first to reach the 'patch of death' followed by the second on auto update As a Scientist I proffer the following If Newspaper reports are anything to go by then by their own admission MS admit that the problem also occurred in Windows XP, Vista etc this acknowledges they are aware of the problem however have not been prepared to fix nor publicise it So much then for those of us who are faced with the hours sorting out a possible cure we are left very much to sort the problem out on our own albeit having paid Microsoft for the privelege of so doing The only conclusion I can come to is that given the failure of uptake for Vista the company don't want to blight W7 with bad publicity rather preferring to show that all in the garden was rosy.
Windows 7 like most things made today suffers from the modern curse where the style of the product is more important than its substance. Wow, such a long thread Anybody care to tag which ones resolved their problem?
FreeTech cesabarre. I fixed my by modifying the Shell key right click Shell leave rest but on value data: explorer. Nice team work.
Free Tech. I scrolled quickly posts and made a conclusion that the issue is related to standalone computers. All W7 have the same issue. I have the same problem occur after a windows update. Is this really a joke? A brand new out of the box system with a single update and then suddenly a black screen, no mouse, no keyboard both wireless. Just before this happened I had an issue with the video settings - they were automatically resetting to a lower resolution.
So I am assuming this is a video issue related to the this crappy OS. Just as a side vent: Windows XP a very reliable OS is hands and shoulders above this shinny box garbage. I do not think it is due to virus or malware as the machine is new.
Initially, on day 5since I received it, I found it only have black screen while mouse icon was shown. I can start task manager - but I can not start explorer from task manager. I tried to restore the system to a previous point, there are 4 points, each after a microsoft update. But my restoration fails each one at last step. I decided to make a clean installation -- While Dell technical support seems a little scared at this idea.
I make a clean installation, so everything is OK initially, but I found the network adpater and wireless and Broadcom USH and an unknown driver were not installed. So I download the drivers from dell website and installed the driver. After restart, the system become worsen as after the system is powered up, it enter the black screen and without mouse icon.
I can not even make another clean reinstallation, after the "Loading files" of restoration process, it entered black screen again without mouse. I have the same problem. I ran Malwarebytes on my PC and it didn't detect anything. I currently have Norton Internet Security installed. I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate. In this instance you logon as per normal till you're the black screen with only the cursor. Absolute genius! Personally the prevx fix did not work for me and i was almost out of options before i found this site.
I am using windows 7 and i would get a normal login screen, after logging in i would get black screen, no taskbar, no start menu etc. The general info for checking out your registry keys is a good idea.
I followed the instructions and all my registry keys were in order as far as i could tell. The one thing that did resolve my problem was going to task manager, if i had access to the start menu it would be more simple. So i just give you instructions on running cmd prompt as an admin from task manager. Run this command by hitting enter. Latitude E about 4 months old, turned off Friday in doc, now boots to black screen, white cursor. I can see my restore from a known good time and I can't restore it from rstcui.
Better not have shipped the disk like this cause that's freaking embarassing if you did. Seems like this is happening to a lot of people since around the end of Jan
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