Thanks!
The point of making the welcome screen go away is to see what's happening behind the curtain, so to speak. You can return it to a normal setting if you wish by deleting the key, or setting it to a smaller value - 15-30 or so.
I'd leave the command to drive the script to full-screen in until you can find the underlying problem..
Lets get down to basics - create a batch file with a simple Echo and Pause commands and see if they present during login. If they do, then it can be related to Kix32.. I'd try a simple kix script then, just a "hello" message followed by a Get $ to wait for a keypress.
With the black screen coming up during login and not happening with the login scripts disabled, it's related to the process.. need to divide/conquer now through simplification.
Also - try running the commands explicitly in the user profile - "kix32.exe kixtart.kx" - no path needed. Might want to wrap that in a bat file so you can tell if the bat file at least launches, and add the pause to that so you can see the result. Do it for just one user account to test.
If you're running WSUS, make sure you don't auto-approve driver updates. Have had some nasty experiences with that, compared to an overall good experience with WSUS otherwise.
Glenn
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