Solved A program's not allowing me to do anything when I sign in!

Hi. I'm having a pretty intense issue with my desktop right now.

There's a program I have for Win11, to replace the windows' round corners with square ones. Not a very recent download; I've had it for a few months or so. I went to run it because I noticed my windows had been made round again, but I think I accidentally ran the program twice. Now whenever I sign in, I can't see anything (aside from a single-frame flicker every couple seconds), I can't click anything, I can't seem to ALT-TAB anywhere... I notification keeps popping up saying "Your session was logged off because DWM crashed. Please contact your administrator for further information and check the event log," but it's never highlighted. I managed to open the task manager one time with CTRL-SHIFT-ESC, but I didn't have nearly enough time to do anything with it. After about a minute or two, it signs me out automatically.

Is there some way I can start up or sign in without unnecessary programs running immediately? Or is there something else I can do to get around this?

(Sorry about not having the Windows Build listed. I don't really pay much attention to it, and it's kinda difficult to get that info now.)

You can try Option One: Boot to Safe Mode in Windows 11 from Advanced Startup, by following this Forum Tutorial:


from there you can disable any conflicting program.

iko22 said:

You can try Option One: Boot to Safe Mode in Windows 11 from Advanced Startup, by following this Forum Tutorial:

Boot to Safe Mode in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to boot Windows 11 into normal mode, Safe Mode, Safe Mode with Networking, or Safe Mode with Command Prompt. Safe mode starts Windows in a basic state, using a limited set of files and drivers. If a problem doesn't happen in safe mode, this means that default...

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from there you can disable any conflicting program.

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Thank you for responding. Everything seems to be back to normal now!

I tried Safe Mode and Safe Mode With Command Prompt. Safe Mode showed no difference, but Safe Mode With Command Prompt worked just fine. I had a look at start-up applications, and I didn't see anything relating to the program I ran, so I figured it wasn't so much a program in my way, but messed up crucial files.

Following a guide from where I downloaded it on how to uninstall the program and restore round corners, I tried running "sfc /scannow" into the command prompt. I've rebooted now and, as I said before, everything seems to be A-okay. So thank you again very much for your swift response.

It might help us to help you if this 'Program' wasn't such a secret, why can't you name it?

Rollback_Jockey said:

It might help us to help you if this 'Program' wasn't such a secret, why can't you name it?

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I wasn't keeping it a 'secret'; I just wasn't sure coming on here what the expectations were, and I figured if you guys needed to know you would ask.

It's just called "Win11DisableRoundedCorners", or "Win11DisableOrRestoreRoundedCorners" for the actual exe.

I like the rounded corners.
They don't hurt as much, when you bump into them.

Ghot said:

I like the rounded corners.
They don't hurt as much, when you bump into them.

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I like them too!
And I've noticed that windows with rounded corners slide more easily when you move them around the screen.