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Crazylikeafox

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sometimes when i exit my games it doesnt take me to the desktop it just goes to a black screen and the only thing visible is my mouse, also if i click where an icon should be the program opens! and if i drag that programs window around the screen it makes the desktop show up kinda like an eraser! but even that doesnt happen all the time, most of the time i press m computers power button and suddenly on screen the desktop shows up and it says "windows is now shutting down" uhhhh....WTF?!
 
Well, when you press the power button, the computer shuts down... which is why you're seeing the shut down screen...

Which program are you running? Some games like to go to black screens after they've exited but a CTRL+ALT+DEL clears things right up.
 
PWMK2 said:
Well, when you press the power button, the computer shuts down... which is why you're seeing the shut down screen...

Which program are you running? Some games like to go to black screens after they've exited but a CTRL+ALT+DEL clears things right up.
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man i really need to word my questions better i guess, because everyone takes me for an idiot :( as to your first statement...i know that! lol i was just saying its weird how the screen stays black until the power buttons pressed then the blackness leaves and the desktops appears for just a second before shut down

and iv already tried ctr-alt-del which does come up because i can see cursor change when i mouse around the blackness but unfortunately i cant see where to click through the blackness, as for the games i play fear, counterstrike, hl, hl2, hl2:ep 1, farcry, hitman blood money, starcraft, WoW, gta:vc, gta:sa, black and white and many more :)
 
OH OH OH...

This used to happen to me whenever I would stop playing Oregon Trail II back in the day, if I remember correctly. Wow, that was a long time ago...

Anyway, since I found moving windows always fixed the problem (because wherever a window moved, Windows would refresh that area) what I would do is move the cursor down to where the start button should be. Then I click start and the start menu would pop up (everything else would still be black though save the start menu). Then I would open up Internet Explorer, it would open up as default full screen and everything was fixed again.

Now, granted, this was under much difference circumstances... on an old 400 MHz Celeron machine wth Windows 2000 Professional. But the symptoms seem the same.

Also, it might be good to update your drivers in case you haven't done that in a while <-- just making sure...
 
What happens if you press F5 (refresh) while explorer.exe is active and at the front?
 
well i tried you start button method which did work, and it also works if i right click the desktop then fell my way to the refresh button, but this is all irrelevant because THIS SHOULDNT HAPPEN! and i updated all my drivers and it happens in all my games just at random, it seems to only happen when i play a game out of my monitors native resolution, so maybe its a problem from going to 1024 X 768 or 800 X 600 to my desktop res of 1280 X 1024?
 
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