Logon Process does not finish on Clean Windows 7 Pro x64 Reinstall (Black Wallpaper/N

When Windows starts up it never completely finishes.* It dumps me to the desktop but does not apply a wallpaper or play the logon sound, explorer loads and the taskbar does pop up though.

I'm left with a black desktop with no wallpaper.* Its a minor (annoying) bug, but I'm worried that this is effecting something else besides the wallpaper loading and sounds.

Here's the weird part, if I right click on my desktop, go to personalize, and then go to Desktop background windows will suddenly spring to life and load my wallpaper, play the logon sounds and whatever else.



So, has anyone else had the problem where their desktop wallpaper wont load at logon and their logon sounds won't play?* If so, is there any fixes or maybe a KB article/Patch?

-Thanks, Quad



List of Important Hardware and Software:
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Hardware
*** Asus P5K BIOS v1201 (Disabled Jmicron Sata & Onboard HD Audio)
*** Nvidia 8800GTS 512MB (G92 Core)
*** Soundblaster XFi XtremeMusic (The one with the EMU20K1 chip)
*** Abit AirPace Wifi Card (Atheros AR5006 Based)

Windows 7 Pro x64 (Clean Install off of DVD)
** Used a upgrade key trick to register, changed the registry key MediaBootInstall to 0 and then ran slmgr /rearm and activated
** Fully updated and installed all patches through windows update

Other Windows Components
** Installed Windows Virtual PC and XP Mode
** Installed Windows Live Essentials (Mail, Messenger, Movie Maker, Photo Gallery and Live Writer)
** DirectX Runtime updates (Whatever the latest release is, I used the online installer)
** Visual C++ 2005 Redistributal & ATL Update x86 (KB973923)
** Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition
** Microsoft Silverlight

Drivers (Ones that I installed manually)
** Nvidia Display Drivers v196.34 Beta (They were unsigned)
** Nvidia PhysX v9.09.1112
** Creative X-Fi 2.18.0013 (And ALchemy 1.41.02)
** Intel INF Update v9.1.1.1025
** Atheros 5006X Wireless Driver v7.7.0.456
** Lightscribe System Software v1.18.11.1
** HP Deskjet 6980 Driver v0.3.7071.0 (Installed from Windows Update)
** Xbox 360 Controller Receiver Driver v(Whatever the latest version off of Windows Update is)
** OpenAL v2.0.7.0
** Quicktime might have installed a ASPI driver

Software
*** Nvidia Control Panel v2.8.291.02
*** Soundfont Bank Manager v3.21.02
*** Creative Audio Control Panel
*** Creative Sound Blaster Properties x64
*** Lightscribe Template Labeler(Latest version)
*** Mozilla Firefox v3.6
*** Latest Version of Flash - ActiveX(IE) and Plugin for Firefox
*** Latest Version of Divx 7
*** Latest Version of Quicktime
******* Apple Application Support
******* Apple Software Update
*** Java x86 v6 Update 18
*** Java x64 v6 Update 18
*** WMP Plugin for Firefox (The one from port25.technet.com)
*** Winrar 3.91 x64
*** CCleaner (Latest Version)
*** AIM Lite v0.33
*** Mass Effect 1 (Patched to v1.02)
*** Mass Effect 2
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I seriously doubt any software I installed is the culprit, as I have installed variations of it on dozens of systems, and I know all my hardware is good too. =)



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