is this a problem that i can’t fix on my own and is it serious to get it fixed right away?
Hi,this doesn’t help you at the present time, but you might consider this program in the future. 
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It’s going to be on sale May 25th http://www.bitsdujour.com/software/rollback-rx-professional/notify/
hope this helps.
nothing else is wrong and system restore works in safe mode so i’m just going to leave it for now.