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Fix a Black Screen with Only a Mouse Cursor at Windows Startup

Fix a Black Screen with Only a Mouse Cursor at Windows Startup

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If you start your computer and see only a pitch-black screen with nothing but the mouse pointer, you can fix the black screen with only a mouse cursor at Windows startup by following the instructions below
With this black screen, the computer still starts normally, the Windows startup sound still plays and the computer fan still runs, while the screen is pitch black with only the mouse pointer showing.

Table of contents 5 items
  1. Causes of the Windows Black Screen with Only a Mouse Cursor
  2. How to Fix the Windows Black Screen with Only a Mouse Cursor
  3. TEMPORARY BLACK SCREEN FIX
  4. PERMANENT BLACK SCREEN FIX
  5. Download Fix_Explorer.reg

Causes of the Windows Black Screen with Only a Mouse Cursor

  • Software conflicts
  •  A virus deleted files or damaged the registry
  • An error while updating or upgrading Windows

 

How to Fix the Windows Black Screen with Only a Mouse Cursor

TEMPORARY BLACK SCREEN FIX

First, press the key combination Ctrl + ALT + Esc to open Task Manager. Then select File > Run new task
Fix a Black Screen with Only a Mouse Cursor at Windows Startup
The Run dialog box will then appear. Type the command Explorer.exe into the Run box and click OK or press Enter. The black screen will now go away and the computer will show its normal interface (if it still doesn’t work, repeat this a few times)
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PERMANENT BLACK SCREEN FIX

After you get into the main interface, press Windows + R  to open the Run dialog box, then type the command regedit and press Enter to open Registry Editor
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In Registry Editor, navigate to the following path:  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionWinlogon.
Then click Winlogon and look at the right column. You need to check these two entries:

  • Shell: if it doesn’t have the value explorer.exe, double-click Shell and enter explorer.exe there.
  • Userinit: does it have the value C:Windowssystem32userinit.exe, or not? If not, double-click Userinit and enter the value C:Windowssystem32userinit.exe there.

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Or you can download the file below, then open the fix_explorer.reg file to permanently fix the black screen error with just 1 click

Download Fix_Explorer.reg

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After you finish the steps above, finally restart the computer and your black screen error will be fixed]]>

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Hoang Ngoc Quang Anh

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