RDP Black Screen
I must say it was really a weird issue which made me scratch my head for hours together. I had a Windows 2003 Server which was behaving was having a typical problem, whenever I was trying to do remote desktop i was getting Black Patches on some on some parts of the screen. In the beginning I thought it might be a problem with VGA drivers or some third party products so I uninstalled all of them but nothing worked. At last I thought it would be nice if I can export the registry entries of the other running server from HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Colors and import it. Here are the steps i am listing down
1)On a working windows 2003 system
2)Open regedit
3)Connect to remote registry
4)Navigate to HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Colors (on the effected system)
5)Create a export of the current key
6)Go to the working system
7)Create a export of HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Colors
8)Import the working registry settings to the remote registry system that is effected by the black screen
9)Reboot the effected system the color should be restored now.
Note: Please see the link for screen shot
http://www.virmansec.com/cfs-filesystemfile.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Components.PostAttachments/00.00.00.06.37/Black.JPG
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