Windows 10: grey screen when restarting or shutting down

I noticed after I downloaded the most recent updates and I disabled the Windows background on the sign-in screen I now have a dull grey screen when shutting down or restarting does anyone else have this? When it says restarting or shutting down or when I'm signing in the background is blue, but in between a weird grey screen shows up?

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Nuisance errors when shutting down or restarting the computer

I checked those settings and determined they are set correctly as you specified.

 

Nuisance errors when shutting down or restarting the computer

Hi,

Thank you for posting your concern in Microsoft community.

I suggest you to follow the steps below and check if it helps:


1) Press Windows key + R and type dcomcnfg, and press
Enter.

2) Expand Componet Services\Computers.

3) Right-click My Computer and select Properties.

3) In the Default Distributed COM Communication.


Properties section of Default Properties tab, make sure that:

a. Default Authentication Level is set to
Connect.

b. Default Impersonation Level is set to
Identify.

Hope this information is helpful. Get back to us for further assistance.

 

Aye, me too. I noticed this recently but no idea why it's happening. Nothing in the Event Viewer.

 

Several updates later.... no change.

 

me too.. nobody have a fix?

 

Is nobody else seeing this?

 

Did you ever find a solution?

 

You disabled the background on the sign-in screen. My guess is the gray background is the default container and isn't really an issue.
They might have forgotten to make it transparant?

 

I've used my own image as a background on the sign-in screen since day 1 (early adopter, 29th July 2016). This grey screen on the logout/restart screen is a recent thing, as in last 2 or 3 months.

 

Hmm ok, got me at a loss here *Sad.
Only thing i can come up with, is resetting your windows files (without touching your personal files).

 

Already tried that. I've fully removed the display drivers using DDU from Guru3D, plus performed an in-place upgrade using the Windows Media Creation Tool. But still the grey screen remains, so i'm totally perplexed.

It doesn't seem to affect the performance of the OS, and I don't actually have any difficulties shutting down or restarting my rig. But I've been lead to believe that grey is a bad thing and indicates something's not quite right, so i'd like to get to the bottom of what's causing it. The Windows 10 anniversary upgrade isn't far off, so maybe that will iron out whatever the illusive issue is that's causing this problem.