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SOLVED: Remote Desktop Shows Black Screen in Windows 7 and 8If you RDP (remote desktop) to a Windows 7 or 8 PC and see only a black screen the computers involved appear to be arguing over screen resolution. The easy way to resolve it is to: Show
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For more details see, THIS Microsoft KBase article or THIS blog. For the record, I like the phrase BLACK SCREEN OF DOOM that has been coined by others. Categories: Windows 11 10 8 7 & XP Tags: BLACK SCREEN OF DOOMRDP Black Screen 39 CommentsMitesh · May 5, 2020 at 2:35 amThanks! i got it to work by reducing the resolution in RDC man and then connecting to the server. Reply Volkan Turhan · January 11, 2020 at 6:30 amthank you Reply Sindhu · August 12, 2019 at 12:29 amHey thanks for it. It worked like a pro Reply Bob Slob · October 12, 2018 at 10:46 amPS C:\> invoke-command -computer BigSlobBobzServer01 {Net localgroup Users Interactive /add} PS C:\> invoke-command -computer BigSlobBobzServer01 {Net localgroup Users Authenticated Users /add} Reply Thanh · October 1, 2018 at 9:45 amIt works for me, just click Ctrl+Alt+End , everything show Reply yousifco · July 26, 2018 at 12:31 amPerfect 5 stars Reply Dimitri · March 15, 2017 at 3:13 pmThat worked a treat! Reply lawrence · January 3, 2017 at 4:15 pmthank you very much for this infomation it has helped to bring back my rdp to live Reply tfk · January 12, 2016 at 2:38 amthis has been giving me problems FOR MONTHS AND MONTHS. Yes it appears that if the remote PC is logged in then the black screen will nearly always happen. so completely log out REMOTELY first (Not sure if the switched user-to-login-screen is sufficient) Reply Ian Matthews · January 25, 2016 at 9:39 pmThis is a problem with only intermittent solutions for me. I see the problem with some regularity and these solutions are the best I have to date. Reply Thirupal · December 30, 2015 at 4:54 amFentastic solution Reply Ticoloco · December 24, 2015 at 4:41 amUAC. UAC is the problem. That bullshit, yes. In my case the first login was successful and working, but any other consecutive attempt was not working. I was getting either a flickering(unusable) or completely black screen, on RDP or directly on the console of the 2012 R2 server. In the Application eventlogs there were lots of errors with eventID 1000(Faulting application name: explorer.exe, version: 6.3.9600.17415, time stamp: 0x54503a3a Reply blake · October 28, 2015 at 12:15 pmYou just saved me an embarrassing email to my boss. You sir are my hero Reply Morossimo · October 26, 2015 at 5:24 amRight, Ctrl+alt+End didnt help. I will try Ctrl+Alt+Esc. Well, it seems that simply multiple clicks on the right button mouse do the job too. Thx ! Reply tim · October 6, 2015 at 11:57 amThis has helped. Ctrl+alt+End didnt help, but the other handy shortcut Ctrl+Alt+Esc sure did. Maybe thats a typo. Reply
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