Recently only I have encountered this problem. When my system boots it gets stuck on a blank screen after it shows "Creating your desktop..." screen. I can run Task Manager simply by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del keys and from there when I run "Explorer" as a New Task, Desktop appears and everything seems to work fine. I changed the Local Group Policy where I changed "Administrator" name to my name. It is showing my name instead of Administrator as a User and also at Log on it displays my name. When I again tried to restore the name to "Administrator" to my amazement I saw the value "Administrator" there in the Local Group Policy. I did update the Group Policy using "gpupdate". Anyone can look in to the issue. Can this be some other problem?

To change your username, create a new user in Server Manager and assign it appropriate rights. Renaming the Administrator-account can create problems in your server if you don't do it "the right way". Steps to create a new user: Start Server Manager Open "Configuration" Open "Local Users and Groups" Open "Users" Right click in the white space and select new user. Add the information needed. Click create. Open Groups Doubleclick "Administrators" Click Add Add your created account to the list. Click ok.

Hello, If your Windows Server 2008 belongs to a WORKGROUP, please follow Joachims suggestion to create a new user account in administrators group. And then, please logon the system using this new account and try to rename the Administrator account name by the following steps: 1. Click Start, Click Run. 2. Type gpedit.msc and press Enter. 3. In the console tree, expand Computer Configuration, expand Windows Settings, expand Security Settings, expand Local Policies, and then click Security Options. 4. In the right pane, double-click Accounts: Rename administrator account. 5. Type the new name that you want to use for the administrator account and press Enter. 6. Close the console and open Command Prompt. 7. Type gpupdate /force to apply the change. 8. Log off and then login with the renamed Administrator account and check whether the issue still occurs and whetherthe build-inAdministrator displayname has been changed in the local computer policies -> Accounts: Rename administrator account policy. If your Windows Server 2008 belongs to a domain, please refer to the following KB article to rename and restore administrator user account: HOW TO: Rename the Administrator and Guest Account in Windows Server 2003 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816109 The steps for Windows Server 2008 are similar compared with the steps for Windows Server 2003. I hope this helps. Neo Zhu

The actual problem is with Display Device Driver which is failing to load. I did find this link on Microsoft Support pages. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/946400 Text of the Link is -> TOPIC When you start a Windows Vista-based computer or a Windows Server 2008-based computer, the computer stops responding on a blank screen SYMPTOMS When you start a Windows Vista-based computer or a Windows Server 2008-based computer, the computer stops responding on blank screen. This problem occurs when the computer has a VGA driver installed. CAUSE When the system detects the display device as using a VGA driver, the original Hardware Acceleration setting is ignored. In other words, the display device is treated as if the Hardware Acceleration setting is set to None. This behavior occurs because the VGA driver does not support any hardware acceleration. Therefore, it is faster to update the display if the graphics device interface (GDI) performs all the drawing in an off-screen buffer instead of by passing drawing commands to the VGA driver. (These commands are run in video memory.) The display device checks the first graphics adapter only if it uses a VGA driver. RESOLUTION To resolve this problem, change the order of the display divers to make sure that the VGA driver is not listed first in the display device .inf file. To do this, follow these steps: 1. Open the display device .inf file. 2. Locate the InstalledDisplayDrivers value. For example, the string that contains this value may resemble the following: HKR,, InstalledDisplayDrivers, 0x00010000, vga, mydispdd 3. If you do not need the VGA driver, change the string to the following: HKR,, InstalledDisplayDrivers, 0x00010000, mydispddNote The driver supports only the very low display settings of the original VGA standard. The most useful setting is the 640 by 480 screen resolution. 4. If you must have the VGA driver, change the string to the following: HKR,, InstalledDisplayDrivers, 0x00010000, mydispdd, vga 5. Save the display device .inf file.

Hi, Thanks for your update and information sharing.