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    Enabling UAC Gives Me Black Screen @ Startup For a Minute

    Discussion in 'HP' started by Ayepecks, Dec 17, 2007.

  1. Ayepecks

    Ayepecks Notebook Evangelist

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    Whenever I enable UAC in Windows Vista on my dv2500t, I get a black screen for a minute (or more) with a cursor after the welcome screen. It's fairly annoying, and it still happens when I use TweakUAC to put it in quiet mode. When I turn UAC off it doesn't give me the black screen but it takes longer to boot up.

    Does anyone know how I can fix this? It's extremely annoying. It doesn't do this on my a6152n desktop.

    (The task bar also resizes to twice the normal size for a few seconds after the black screen goes away, if this helps for description purposes.)
     
    Ayepecks, Dec 17, 2007
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  2. timtravel42

    timtravel42 Notebook Virtuoso

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    i have the same problem but i don't like UAC anyway so I disabled it
    there is an optional windows update that fixes this i think
    ill look for it and post it if i can find it
     
    timtravel42, Dec 18, 2007
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  3. Ayepecks

    Ayepecks Notebook Evangelist

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    Thanks :) I've got all the Windows updates that are required (or came through Windows Update), but I don't think I installed any optional ones unless they came through Windows Update.
     
    Ayepecks, Dec 18, 2007
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