Hey all, I recently had a power outage which shut everything off in a blink of an eye. Everything seemed fine as I had serge protectors installed however every time I start up my windows vista computer, when the green loading bar is working it stops and starting moving at a snails pace. Eventually after minutes it loads windows however things don't work like normal. Firstly my network doesn't register, and secondly I can't turn off my computer. I have a small solution for the time being and thats to start up with the safe mode menu but still load windows normally. For some reason this fixes everything as shown by me writing this thread. What do you think? pop in windows vista and try to repair it? Or is a format needed? or Is it some hardware. thanks for reading, MrNah.