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Thanks so much! You are good. How does someone get that good? Problem resolved.
I didnt get to do all that as I didnt have a usb stick handy. So I used imgburn to put the Win7 64 Recovery iso to CD. I was able to do a system restore which fixed the problem, thanks to the Recovery disk. To be honest, it’s not clear what caused the problem. I assumed it was a blackout that happened last night while I was asleep and the PC was on that messed something up.
But then I started reading other forums about the bootup process and the safe mode boot up process hanging on aswRvrt.sys, and that it was related to an update from Avast being blocked by Comodo causing some kind of file corruption. I won’t pretend to understand any of that, but it seems to be a common problem which started a month ago.
I’m currently updating everything I have to be on the safe side and disk scanning for errors. Thanks again.