If this doesn’t apply to you, there is also a Mark Russinovich blog on a similar issue he was encountering due to inaccessible mapped drives. Results since applying to affected user workstations seems to be promising. A corresponding event follows after 10 minutes: “ The winlogon notification subscriber took 600 second(s) to handle the norification event (StartShell).”Ī brief email to our Microsoft PFE was answered with possible hotfix described here. In a couple cases, if I let it sit long enough, the desktop might load or the TM would launch, but the overall experience was plagued by various performance issues and errors. I’m assuming the StartShell is explorer.exe. I actually encountered this a few times on one of my test workstations and a review of the event logs reveals the following warning message: “ The wnlogon notification subscriber is taking too long to handle the event notification event (StartShell).” Recovery required that a hard reboot was performed, and afterwards the user could logon normally. Note: We advise you to make a backup of your files on a mobile device as something like interruption of the update, lack of power, loss of signal from the internet, among others, may occur. Most often this was encountered at the first logon of the day after the workstation has been logged out of the previous day and then left idle for several hours. Select Troubleshooting> Restore your PC> Keep my files. Then 'My Computer kind of locks for about 45 seconds. The problem is that after I logon to Windows 7, for a few seconds My Computer and all my drives are still very fast.

Except for the mouse cursor nothing else was functional, even the Task Manager couldn’t be started. I was able to fix the Windows 7 logon black screen with cursor problem but it was replaced by another problem called Slow My Computer at startup.

We started to see a rash of complaints from users who were encountering a black screen after logging onto their Windows 7 workstations. Crashing Config Manager Client & Remote Control Viewer after Windto 1709 Update.The Case of the Dysfunctional Adobe PDF Plugin.The Case of the Missing Image Preview Tiles.

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