I've had this problem for a few day now, tried all manner of things but no luck. When it started I was just using my computer normally, I had MSN, iTunes and Firefox running, when my computer just froze suddenly. After leaving it a few mins I eventually turned it off. When it restarted, it came up with the option to go to Windows Startup Repair which it said was recommended, so thats what I did. It eventually restarted, went to the login screen and when I typed in my password it loaded but the screen was just black. I could see bits of the taskbar and my mouse cursor but that was all. I turned it off and back on again and from then on the same thing would happen, except the screen would be COMPLETELY black, none of the taskbar was visible, though the mouse cursor was still there. Now it wont even load the black screen though. I type in password, it comes up with "welcome" and then doesn't change. The mouse cursor is visible and shows the 'loading' icon, however I cannot move it. I can't access task manager as I have read elsewhere with people having a similiar problem, and safe mode does not work. I can however access command prompt from the startup repair utility. I have run dskchk which did not find any errors and only once of the many times I have tried logging in did it come up with an error that said
"The file or directory \Windows\System32\en-US\imageres.dll.mui is corupt and unreadable.
Please run the Chkdsk utility."
However I have run Chkdsk since, which found no errors as mentioned, so I am officially out of ideas. The only option I haven't tried is to reinstall windows, however this would mean I would lose all the data on my laptop, which I would obviously rather not do since I dont have backups of most of it. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.
