Quote Originally Posted by techallenged View Post
Sometimes the wood can't be seen for the trees

I had another root around and what did I find? In system configuration there is a tab called "boot", and safe boot was ticked/checked. I unticked it, restarted and guess what? Windows boots normally.

So there we have another thing to look out for if someone else ever has this kind of problem
Thank you so much guys! A special thank to techallenged Life saver My desktop all of the sudden would only boot on the safe mode. Tried several times to restore unsuccessfully. Now it is OK