No logon screen showing

from Stardock Forums

I am running Vista and have used LogonStudio with a customized screen for over a year. Today I opened LogonStudio and changed the logon screen to a different file. The program stalled out and then froze my computer. Now when I start my computer, instead of the logon screen all I see is a black screen. I also see a cursor and am able to move it around but cannot access any way of logging in.

I've tried hitting ctrl+alt+del twice (as I've seen suggested in other posts) but to no avail.

I've also just tried typing in my password and hitting enter in hopes that it would accept it even without seeing the logon screen but that didn't work either.

At this point I have no idea what to do.

I'm hoping there is some way to bipass the logon screen with some sort of command at the beginning of the process. Otherwise I don't know how I'm going to be able to get back into windows to change back to the old screen.

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Have you tried booting into safe mode?

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Yes. Same thing happens. Because of the size of the cursor has changed, I can see that it's at a different display setting but it's still trying to show a logon screen but giving my a black screen instead with no way to log on.

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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

How about going to the "last known good configuration" on your boot options.

It should revert back to a previous version of the registry. (you might lose some data)

 

 

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

I tried to do the "last known good configuration" boot and it still acted the same way. Black screen with cursor instead of the logon screen.