Ctrl-Alt-Del screen black until login?

[Rawns]

We have a couple of servers we RDP/VNC onto and when you connect, the screen is partially balck as below:

 

 

You cant see it, but you can enter the username and password, and as soon as you log in, you can see the screen as normal. I'm sure I spoke to someone who had this issue, and was told they fixed it with a reg key, but it was a while ago and I cannot remember who!

 

Has anyone seen this and correct it at all?

[Rawns]

Ignore this post! I suddenly remembered who I was chatting to and they have hooked me up with a soloution:

 

 

The color schemes in the computer's default profile may have been set to

black for every scheme element. Please review the below steps for this may

resolve your issue:

On the Windows 2003 Server this can be verified by navigating to the

following registry key:

 

 

HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Colors

If this is the issue all colors scheme element registry values will be set

to 0. Compare this with a known good copy below:

 

 

[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Colors]

"ActiveBorder"="212 208 200"

"ActiveTitle"="0 84 227"

"AppWorkSpace"="128 128 128"

"Background"="0 78 152"

"ButtonAlternateFace"="181 181 181"

"ButtonDkShadow"="113 111 100"

"ButtonFace"="236 233 216"

"ButtonHilight"="255 255 255"

"ButtonLight"="241 239 226"

"ButtonShadow"="172 168 153"

"ButtonText"="0 0 0"

"GradientActiveTitle"="61 149 255"

"GradientInactiveTitle"="157 185 235"

"GrayText"="172 168 153"

"Hilight"="49 106 197"

"HilightText"="255 255 255"

"HotTrackingColor"="0 0 128"

"InactiveBorder"="212 208 200"

"InactiveTitle"="122 150 223"

"InactiveTitleText"="216 228 248"

"InfoText"="0 0 0"

"InfoWindow"="255 255 225"

"Menu"="255 255 255"

"MenuText"="0 0 0"

"Scrollbar"="212 208 200"

"TitleText"="255 255 255"

"Window"="255 255 255"

"WindowFrame"="0 0 0"

"WindowText"="0 0 0"

"MenuHilight"="49 106 197"

"MenuBar"="236 233 216"

 

 

There is two ways to fix this problem:

 

 

1. Export the registry key from a known good machine into a .REG file.

Import the .REG file into the new machine.

 

 

2. You can also construct/copy-paste the following information into a text

file and give it a file name with a .REG extension.