I had an annoying issue a few minutes ago - I've initiated a remote desktop session from my home PC to a windows 7 PC at work.
I was presented with the usual login screen. however, after passing the login phase successfully, the only thing displayed on the remote desktop is a black screen.
I've tried to reopen the remote desktop client, change the RDP screen resolution, reboot the client PC, but the result was always the same - black screen.
Eventually what worked for me was to press the CTRL-ALT-END key combination and click on the "Start Task Manager" option. In this case, that was sufficient to eliminate the black screen issue. In other cases it might be required to terminate some running processes using the remote task manager.
