Recently I thought of checking Windows8 and installed it on a new HDD in my system, AMD Phenom II x4 B955, ASUS M4A88TD-V-EVO, 8 GB DDR3 RAM, Windows 8 x64 RTM build 9200.
Installation went well. Everything worked fine.
I installed CIS6 Beta on it, updated and restarted. I lost my desktop, after clicking password for user, only a black screen is present.
Ctrl+Alt+Del brings the usual options, I could open Task Manager, and explorer.exe from there, which only brings My Documents folder. I could run all programs from Task Manager Run window. But, could not get the desktop.
I removed CIS from control panel and restarted. My desktop is back.
I reinstalled whole Windows 8 again, and yet again the same thing happens after installing CIS 6 beta.
Has any one already had this issue. If yes, please suggest me what to do.
Otherwise, I would like to report a bug for this issue.
If it’s the same, taskmanager or Killswitch (set to act as taskmanager re cntrl-alt-del should show nothing loaded under explorer.
What I used to do was logout using taskmanager, enter a normal (non-admn) user account, wait 5 mins for all progs to load, then log out again, then log in again to the normal account.
I think explorer was timing out loading stuff for some CIS-related reason. I also found that it only happened when or shortly after I had undertaken major changes. My gusss was that something windows installer related might be happening, but it’s just a guess.
Maybe you should as well report your problem to Microsoft Redirecting
Lots of people seem to have problems with Win 8 such as BSOD, drivers, security softwares,…
Seems a lot of people have the same issue. It may be caused by ATI graphics incompatibility too…
I will check this first.
I will do as much research as I can and try to isolate the problem. Then I will file a bug report. This will eliminate unnecessary pressure on the devs…
Probably driver related though CIS has problems with the Control Center and associated software, which is run via a complex sequence - CLIstart then Mom.exe then CCC.exe
Basically on some systems one of these tends to get run as partially limited, possibly due to early loading, so the rest do.
I’d also check killswitch verdict just to be sure. Early sandboxing can be niotification and log-less, though subsequently invoked progs should log…
Did you try my account log-out/in sequence?
Barmy, but worked… Similar symptoms…I’m guessing explorer is not loading any progs, not even the desktop - its not really a BSOD, as you don’t get the error and dump screen?
yes, log out was successful. But, logging back in was not.
It is not a Blue Sceen of Death, so we will not really have any error or dump.
Everything works fine, expect the Desktop loading…so windows does not consider it as a boot failure, so no dumps…
I have the exacly same problem here, and that’s sad because i only trust on Comodo IS =/ I guess i have to try another security product for a while… Oh, this problem happens with CIS 6 Beta and CIS 5.12, what should i do about this?