Hi everyone
Have an HP Pavilion Laptop running Win 7.
Today, did not go to sleep mode when screen closed, instead changed to black screen with only cursor icon visible; turned OFF by holding ON button.
During start, screen took awhile to get to PASSWORD but finally did; once entered, Welcome message kept spinning x 20 min and then black screen appeared.  Tried again, with same result.
Was able to open in safe mode with NETWORKING; looked at HP website and decided to do a system restore from safe mode.  Showed me that a critical update had been installed on May 3; followed prompts and SEEMED successful.
Re-started on own and again, once password entered, welcome message appears and disc spins; been 15 minutes and now black screen again.

Issue with this laptop has been a faulty fan that would run heavily and device has always been QUITE hot ever since purchase at Costco.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.
 

Update.
Followed Allan's advice on a 2011 thread issue that sounded exactly like mine.  Followed the msconfig approach and re-enabled 4 services at a time; isolated the problem as the RapprtManagmentService from IBM, or 2 services from Apple.  Must be the IBM one as it's been more than 4 years since I did ANYTHING with Apple
When I now click on to services the IBM service is disabled and all seems well.
Thanks for archiving everything.
Cool...glad your back up and runnin and thanx for reporting back...

Lemme guess the Apple servoces were Bonjour"   ? ?Hi patio
Seems like problem is still there.
Left those 3 disabled; desktop appears/windows loads after password ID/can browse internet for 5-10 minutes then stops responding; have to force shutdown and restart.
All is fine on safe mode.
Guess I should re-do the msconfig approach. MSconfig should only be used for testing...if you wanna make changes you are confident with use services.msc