Thanks for help + advice everyone, will follow the links + investigate further
Meantime, to answer your questions:
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Originally Posted by Anthraquinone
You do have your data files backed up onto DVDs or a second hard drive dont you.
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Er, um, ug

(take that as a "no"

)
I'm running Vista.
Hoping to avoid any + all of the Safe Mode, Restore + Reinstall options, mainly 'cos I wouldn't know what I'd be doing

Although davey's suggested F8 + last known good config sounds straight forward enough (if it works with Vista).
All seems ok now, and it only happened once (so far). I think Steve has it with the driver route, so will try that first.
I did wonder if it was PC Tools Anti-Virus causing it, since it wasn't loading properly at start-up.
Thanks again for suggestions.