black or blank screen Blank screen with cursor only

[Johnnnyb]

I often leave my PC running through out the day I'll leave the PC idle and close the monitor when I'm not using it. But recently I've noticed after turning on the monitor and signing in normally as I do that the screen goes full black with just a cursor on the screen. I've read through Microsoft's troubleshoot steps and they seem to do absolutely nothing to change anything. I have uninstalled the display driver in safe mode and windows update reinstalled it by this point I don't know what else can be done I really don't wanna reset windows again it's a real headache considering I've already done it 2 times in the past for other issues.

 

BTW my monitor is a VGA monitor that we've had for almost 10 years now. Microsoft you need to step up your game with bug fixes this crap is annoying.