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Home Windows Server. Windows Server x-All Posts-x. After Login Resulting in the blank desktop Windows R2. By Satheshwaran Manoharan. October 31, Got below Event. Solution — Safe Mode Works. Upgrade to Microsoft Edge to take advantage of the latest features, security updates, and technical support. Feedback will be sent to Microsoft: By pressing the submit button, your feedback will be used to improve Microsoft products and services.

Privacy policy. This article provides resolutions to an issue where you're presented with a blank screen with no Start Menu, shortcuts, or icons after logging on to a Windows computer. After logging on to a Windows computer, you're presented with a blank screen with no Start Menu, shortcuts, or icons. If you reboot and use F8 to boot to Safe Mode with Networking, you'll see your normal desktop. DaveM Independent Advisor.

Ethan B. Independent Advisor. Hey peruguy, It could be a couple of things. You might be stuck in Tablet Mode. You could also get to the desktop, right-click any blank space on it, then navigate to View, then Show desktop icons.

Hope this helps, let me know if either of these things do anything. In reply to Vijay A. Verma's post on May 31, Thanks but no, I have no right-click option. It doesn't work. In reply to peruguy's post on May 31, I would first check out the GPO to see what runs, and against whom.

The user may need to be in a specific OU in Active Directory to get the correct group policies applied. Other things to check is whether the remote access users have a special logon-script attached to their profile, if there is a logon script on the server, or if you don't have enough licenses for remote desktop I expect you do, as you say it's happening on console sessions as well.

Right, so I know this question is really, really, old, but I wanted to close the loop by saying that I never did figure out what the issue was I did try deleting and re-adding the user, and there were no login scripts attached to the user's profiles, though I didn't look in the GPO, mainly because I just ran out of time to troubleshoot it. I "solved" the problem by getting a new server.

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