I never did do the recovery, but lived with the black screen until I installed Wallpaper Master to mask it. I looked at the long thread originated by Laura Pledger (http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/genuinevista/thread/b4c34d7a-ae6d-4c68-9410-441f2d002964).
To make a long story short, I renamed NTUSER.DAT in C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\NetworkService to NTUSER.OLD. I examined all the permissions, per the other thread, and they looked good.
I noticed that the date on NTUSER.DAT was October 11 of last year, about the time I was experiencing multiple BSCRODs.
I rebooted and got the message I needed to reinstall Windows to activate and I needed the OS disk - which of course I did not have. Instead, I followed the following steps, posted numerous times in other threads
1) Open Internet Browser
2) Type %windir%\system32 into the browser address bar.
3) Find the file CMD.exe
4) Right-Click on CMD.exe and select 'Run as Administrator'
5) Type: net stop slsvc (it may ask you if you are sure, select yes)
6) Type: cd %windir%\ServiceProfiles\NetworkService\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\SoftwareLicensing
7) Type: rename tokens.dat tokens.bar
8) Type: cd %windir%\system32
9) Type net start slsvc
10) Type: cscript slmgr.vbs -rilc
(It may take a long time for this to complete, please be patient)
11) Reboot Twice
On the first reboot, I had to enter the product key from the sticker on the side of my machine.
On the second reboot, I invoked Windows Update, and after awhile, I now have 35 important updates to sit through. After this, I plan on a new, complete backup.
SUCCESS AT LAST!!!
Stan Bartnikowski
