Obviously one or more services are failing when you do normal boot. Eventlogs could possibly help you identify the cause of the problem. (Start, run, type eventvwr.msc and hit enter). You can also check if all reuired services are running (Start, run, type services.msc and hit enter). Look for services that are set to Automatic but not running.
Like Kariya21 already says please upgrade to the release version of PP1. Right now you're running unsupported PP1 beta. You probably have repeat restore, and restore to a date well before your problems started appearing after you have upgraded.
Also please run chkdsk /f / r on all partitions before doing restore.
Can you can also please try opening the backups on another machine? Just to check if the backups are OK.
I can't find anything relating to failed services in the event logs. All services with autostart are running.
I did install the RTM release of PP1. Isn't that what rev 6.0.1771.0 is? I tried PP1 beta for a month or so, and then did the upgrade following instructions when the RTM version came out.
I have opened backups for all computers on the other 3 computers with no problems whatsoever.
Because of a couple of other strange issues such as the msconfig issue I think I'm going to have to wipe and reinstall this computer to solve all these problems. What a pain. Although I guess before I do that I can go back to my very first manual backup and see if that solves all the problems.
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