my Friday horror story continues : Terminal Server weird black RDP login screen

my Friday horror story continues : Terminal Server weird black RDP login screen

the be-loved customer got a windows 2003 terminal server, all users profiles located on C: drive, and they are very busy, that means the C: drive got filled up pretty quick from time to time.

this morning I got a panic phone call, the whole thing crashed big time, I clear more space , saddenly the login screen gone blank, I can login blindly, once logged all normal. just the login screen totally stuffed, at the time I tought a reboot would fix it, but a restart is not fixing the black screen.

frantic googling found some good source
here is the link saved the day
http://forums.techguy.org/windows-server/1051149-terminal-server-weird-rdp-login.html
https://www.serverintellect.com/support/windowsserver/remote-desktop-black-screen/

namely , the reg settings got corrupted by old h/w or heavy load or something

to restore it, merge to reg the following (quoted from above)

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Colors]
"ActiveBorder"="212 208 200"
"ActiveTitle"="10 36 106"
"AppWorkSpace"="128 128 128"
"Background"="102 111 116"
"ButtonAlternateFace"="181 181 181"
"ButtonDkShadow"="64 64 64"
"ButtonFace"="212 208 200"
"ButtonHilight"="255 255 255"
"ButtonLight"="212 208 200"
"ButtonShadow"="128 128 128"
"ButtonText"="0 0 0"
"GradientActiveTitle"="166 202 240"
"GradientInactiveTitle"="192 192 192"
"GrayText"="128 128 128"
"Hilight"="10 36 106"
"HilightText"="255 255 255"
"HotTrackingColor"="0 0 128"
"InactiveBorder"="212 208 200"
"InactiveTitle"="128 128 128"
"InactiveTitleText"="212 208 200"
"InfoText"="0 0 0"
"InfoWindow"="255 255 225"
"Menu"="212 208 200"
"MenuText"="0 0 0"
"Scrollbar"="212 208 200"
"TitleText"="255 255 255"
"Window"="255 255 255"
"WindowFrame"="0 0 0"
"WindowText"="0 0 0"