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There are various reports on the internet regarding customers facing Black Screen issues after installing the Microsoft security updates released in November. Microsoft has however confirmed that their is nothing in the security updates which will cause the Black Screen issue in Windows.

Microsoft says

While these reports weren’t brought to us directly, from our research into them, it appears they’re saying that our security updates are making permission changes in the registry to the value for the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Shell key.

We’ve conducted a comprehensive review of the November Security Updates, the Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool, and the non-security updates we released through Windows Update in November. That investigation has shown that none of these updates make any changes to the permissions in the registry. Thus, we don’t believe the updates are related to the “black screen” behavior described in these reports.

We’ve also checked with our worldwide Customer Service and Support organization, and they’ve told us they’re not seeing “black screen” behavior as a broad customer issue. Because these reports were not brought to us directly, it’s impossible to know conclusively what might be causing a “black screen” in those limited instances where customers have seen it. However, we do know that “black screen” behavior is associated with some malware families such as Daonol.

On the other han, PrevX has released a patch for the Black Screen of Death issue. For that you need to install the Black Screen Fix software.

For now, if you are someone who is facing a Black Screen of Death issue after you installed the latest updates from Microsoft, you might be better off using the Black Screen Fix from PrevX. If you haven’t yet updated, you might want to disable automatic updates for now, and must update when Microsoft ( hopefully) comes out with another patch which has a fix for this sporadic issue reported by many.

Have you encountered the Black Screen of Death? Did the Prevx patch work for you? Let us and fellow readers know below in comments.

Also Read: What Caused The Blue Screen Of Death (View BSOD crash information)

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