Black Screen before log in screen (windows 7)

Hi, I have a Samsung R620 Laptop, it has 4GB Ram, 2.1 GHz processor, 500GB HD

and I just formatted my pc and installed windows 7 64 bit back on to it, but now when I start my laptop, I get a black screen where I can see the cursor only for a few seconds and then it shows the log in screen, does anyone know how to remove this black screen and make it go straight to the log in screen?

I have already tried the following

opening Run and typing msconfig, then go to boot, then advanced and changed the number of processors to 2, and ticked maximum memory.

 

http://www.withinwindows.com/2008/0...rformance-for-multi-core-users-with-msconfig/ "Die evil myth. Die."

This option is useful for limiting memory. Enabling this option and setting it to equal your physical memory will have zero improvement over the default, disabled setting.

Since you are already blindly mucking about in msconfig, you will find better boot time savings disabling startup programs in the Startup tab. Startup Assistants and Quick Loaders are typically great candidates for getting the axe. Be careful, however, you can render your system unbootable.

--L.

 

I think this is normal. I've had a second or two of black between the windows logo screen and logon screen with both XP and Win7.

 

Actually this increased the speed of logging in, first when I had it set to 1 processor, when I typed in my password, it took 35 seconds for the Log in screen to show my desktop, after changing it to 2 processors, it taks 8 seconds, wow what a big improvement!

I am offended after reading this, Im not blindly mucking about in msconfig, I used msconfig on various occasions before, and I clearly know what im doing and what can and cant mess up my boot.

 

You can download Puran Free Defrag, and it will defrag the startup files. It may or may not fix it for you.

 

It was never my intention to offend: mea culpa.

And of course it would: you first limited then removed the limit on cores for the boot process.

In your first example, "when I had it set to 1 processor", you limited the boot process to a single processor. "[A]fter changing it to 2 processors" you used both of your cores and had a significant improvement. However my original point stands: setting the processor count to 2 (on a dual-core system) is the same as disabling this option, the default setting.

Microsoft KB article (from the linked posting):

The default setting in Windows (XP, 2003, Vista, 2008, 7) uses as many cores as are available during the boot process. If you have 2 cores, Windows boots using both cores. Unless your system was configured "out-of-the-box" to only use 1 core by the manufacturer, you are not enabling "unused" cores in the boot process: by default all cores are already being used.

--L.