re: Desktop won't reappear in locked state Monday, October 26, 2009 at 11:18 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Jim (3 messages posted) And, presto, without me ever finding a solution or doing anything (I was busy with other things), it's working properly again. I cannot think of anything I did that would have been the cause, because I ran the same software and did the same tasks I was doing when it wasn't working. I'm stumped. On Friday, October 16, 2009 at 9:23 pm, Jim wrote: >Quoting one of your answers: "Of course, if you are in the habit of clicking on Winkey-L >when you walk away from your computer, that's the lock command and you will be presented >with the logon/welcome screen when you try to use the computer again." But when I >touch the mouse while the computer is in windows-L locked state, it moves but I get >a blue screen instead of the Welcome screen with my username. I am forced to reboot, >and the Welcome screen appears, no problem. Everything else works well, computer >has been scanned for virus, etc with Norton, MBAM, Stubware, HijackThis, SuperSpyware >and others. Same thing on another computer, but it's on a domain, so after getting >blank screen after logging in, can use ctl-alt-del to get to task manager, and use >file/new task/explore to get desktop. This happened to both computers after windows >automatic update during week of Oct 12. Have checked and verified userinit, user32.dll, >winlogon.exe, etc. Ideas? Written in response to: Desktop won't reappear in locked state (Jim: Friday, October 16, 2009 at 9:23 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Desktop won't reappear in locked state (Jim: Fri, Oct 16, 2009, 9:23 pm) re: Desktop won't reappear in locked state (Jim: Mon, Oct 26, 2009, 11:18 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum