Win 7
There was a quick power outage and the computer was forced off. I rebooted and now after the windows logo there is a gray screen that remains a very long period of time before the desktop appears. I am able to move the mouse but that is the only functionality I have.
Any ideas? Is a re-install nessesary?
Try a Repair install. Look at the tutorials for it. Startup Repair.
That power outage may of also been a Power surge when it came back on. You really need to get a UPS (Battery Backup system).
Just picked up the surge/bat suppressor
Do I need to boot from a separate device to do in repair?
Look at this.
Startup Repair
Odd...simply booting into the repair menu fixed the problem on the re-boot. I was not able to select start-up repair on my system
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