I've just got home and turned on my computer, to find it booting up
perfectly normally. While I'm very relieved, I'm also at a loss to
explain what's happened. I don't see how the problem could have been a
hardware or an ISP one, since, as I mentioned before, I was using the
same hardware and ISP when booting up satisfactorily in Windows this
morning. It must have been my software, which has, by some unknown
means, righted itself.
I hope that the problem won't now recur.
On that assumption, I'm sorry to have bothered people unnecessarily.
Thank you again,
Leslie
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