Thursday night my computer turned off,  and when I turned it back on,  it told me “Windows was unable to start”,  and recommended I let it do a “Startup repair”,  the conclusion of which involves restoring from the previous Restore point.  I had been running IE9 64 bit and Flash’s new 64-bit Active X Flash player, “Square” for about 36 hours.  The problem came,  I believe,  when I launched IE9 64-bit to open an instance of the NCAA live coverage of the tournament games so I could watch the replay of the Kentucky-Princeton game from earlier Thursday.  I was already connected to the NCAA live coverage with my Chrome browser.   Eventually the Chrome browser Flash player crashed,  and then I noticed that my computer had shut off.

So I nervously consented to the Startup Repair,  which took about 15 minutes,  and seemed to be successful.  As I expected,  the Restore action undid the IE9 install and the Flash 64-bit Active X “Square” install.  I decided I would forego IE9 for now,  until some  of these problems are ironed out.

I’ve done  some googling,  but I haven’t found any accounts of others having this “Startup Repair” process induced on their computer as a consequence of running IE9 and “Square”.