YouTube Black Screen

YouTube black screen may appear after you log-in to your Youtube account. Nothing would appear. There will show no comments, no likes and no rating buttons. 

Black screen error can appear due to various reasons, however, there are different solutions which are discussed below.

1. Uninstall unwanted Add-ons

2. Reinstall Adobe Flash Player

3. Fix Flash Player Registry Issues

4. Update browser

5. Update Graphics Driver

Uninstall unwanted Add-ons:

There are various unwanted browser add-ons and to filter them, there are programs called ad-blocking. You should remove all unwanted toolbars though control panel and disable add-ons through browser as well. To uninstall unwanted toolbars, follow the steps given below.

1. Click on Start | Control Panel

2. Select Add or Remove Programs

3. Now from add or remove programs, select unwanted toolbar

4. Click on Remove

5. Apply same procedure for all unwanted toolbars.

Reinstall Adobe Flash Player

Outdated version of flash player or corrupted installation can cause YouTube black screen error. Reinstalling flash player can fix this problem.

1. Click on Start | Control Panel | Add or Remove Program

2. Select Adobe Flash Player | Uninstall

3. Close control panel Window

Now visit Adobe’s website and download & install updated version of flash player on your system.

Fix Flash Player Registry Issues

Errors in flash player registry entries can cause YouTube Black screen. To solve this problem, follow the steps given below.

1. Download registry cleaning tool such as RegInOut. 

2. Run full registry scan

3. Fix all errors

Update browser

If you are using IE or any other browser, you need to update it to use most of its features. This probably would help you fix YouTube black screen problem.

Update Device Drivers

You should have latest version of device drivers on your system especially graphics drivers to fix YouTube black screen. Follow the steps given below to update device drivers.

1. Download Driver Updating Program

2. Start for driver scan

3. Download and install latest drivers