First of all black screen is really annoying when you hope to do some important work and there it is the famous black screen on your display. You do restart, re install, restore to previous check point etc etc but the problem still persists. When I first started to get this black screen, I googled for solution and it appears lot of brainy guys out there have their own theories. Well I agreed to one guy's theory that it hardware compatibility issue. The reason for me agreeing is that I run my OS on a machine built for Vista and my friend who took recently came with windows 8 has never seen this black screen.
Ok coming to work around, I noticed that explorer.exe was not running when windows 8 started. So you have to manually start it. First you have to give your system some time to load its startup apps (even better disable some unwanted startup apps to speed up the process).
1. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del key and load task manager... if your startup app is taking too much processes then it may take some time to load.
2. Go to file-->Run new task.
3. Browse for explorer.exe in <ins dir>/Windows/explorer.exe and click ok
Note: if your path variable is set to <ins dir>/Windows then directly type explorer.exe and press ok
If your startup process has loaded completely then you will see the task bar else you might have to repeat the steps 2 and 3 until you see the task bar. Now press windows key and everything is back to normal. :)
Ok coming to work around, I noticed that explorer.exe was not running when windows 8 started. So you have to manually start it. First you have to give your system some time to load its startup apps (even better disable some unwanted startup apps to speed up the process).
1. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del key and load task manager... if your startup app is taking too much processes then it may take some time to load.
2. Go to file-->Run new task.
3. Browse for explorer.exe in <ins dir>/Windows/explorer.exe and click ok
Note: if your path variable is set to <ins dir>/Windows then directly type explorer.exe and press ok
If your startup process has loaded completely then you will see the task bar else you might have to repeat the steps 2 and 3 until you see the task bar. Now press windows key and everything is back to normal. :)
