Related: Understanding and Decoding BSOD (blue screen of death) Messages
So what is exactly is the New Black Screen of death ? There are instances when you log in and the screen goes black with nothing but a minimized Explorer window. Since it apparently looks Blank and Black, this “crash” is termed a Black Screen of Death. This is usually caused by a malware infection and sometimes affects XP and Vista as well as older servers and sometimes it totally out of no reason.
Luckily, Prevx has a solution in the form of a quick-fix. All you need to do is download their Black Screen Fix applet and it will clean up your system shell for you. It’s a small download (48KB) and you can easily download it even while affected by the Black Screen by opening task manager (Ctrl+Alt+Del), clicking on “new task” and typing this command:
RUN ->
"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" "http://info.prevx.com/download.asp?GRAB=BLACKSCREENFIX"
(With the quotes)