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Tuesday, May 06, 2008

Windows login dialog boxes are Black and can't see to log in.

I thought it was some freaky video card glitch and tried several things before I decided to look up my issues and low and behold, I wasn't the only one....Go Figure.

Anyway, I have posted the info that helped me below. Thank you Todd J Heron!

Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windows.server.general
From: "Todd J Heron" ...@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 13:03:38 -0500
Local: Tues, Mar 1 2005 1:03 pm
Subject: Re: Windows 2k3 Server shows black login screen
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The color schemes in the computer's default profile may have been set to
black for every scheme element. Please review the below steps for this may
resolve your issue:
On the Windows 2003 Server this can be verified by navigating to the
following registry key:
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Colors
If this is the issue all colors scheme element registry values will be set
to 0. Compare this with a known good copy below:
[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Colors]
"ActiveBorder"="212 208 200"
"ActiveTitle"="0 84 227"
"AppWorkSpace"="128 128 128"
"Background"="0 78 152"
"ButtonAlternateFace"="181 181 181"
"ButtonDkShadow"="113 111 100"
"ButtonFace"="236 233 216"
"ButtonHilight"="255 255 255"
"ButtonLight"="241 239 226"
"ButtonShadow"="172 168 153"
"ButtonText"="0 0 0"
"GradientActiveTitle"="61 149 255"
"GradientInactiveTitle"="157 185 235"
"GrayText"="172 168 153"
"Hilight"="49 106 197"
"HilightText"="255 255 255"
"HotTrackingColor"="0 0 128"
"InactiveBorder"="212 208 200"
"InactiveTitle"="122 150 223"
"InactiveTitleText"="216 228 248"
"InfoText"="0 0 0"
"InfoWindow"="255 255 225"
"Menu"="255 255 255"
"MenuText"="0 0 0"
"Scrollbar"="212 208 200"
"TitleText"="255 255 255"
"Window"="255 255 255"
"WindowFrame"="0 0 0"
"WindowText"="0 0 0"
"MenuHilight"="49 106 197"
"MenuBar"="236 233 216"
There is two ways to fix this problem:
1. Export the registry key from a known good machine into a .REG file.
Import the .REG file into the new machine.
2. You can also construct/copy-paste the following information into a text
file and give it a file name with a .REG extension.


DON'T FORGET TO BACKUP THE REG BEFORE YOU START.
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