After installing Mavericks stuck on Setting up Your Mac after restart

After installing Mavericks which was extremely slow a number of software applications also had updates. All of this took more than a day. After that my login was slow but everything worked.
The other user's log in got stuck on Setting up your Mac. Then I made mistake of going in under my own log in and changing start-up to go automatically to the other user automatically. Now I can't log myself in anymore and I am totally hung up now on Setting Up Your Mac without any access.

Welcome to the Support Communities! The article below will help you troubleshoot the issue you are having with starting up your Mac:
OS X Mavericks: If your computer stops or delays while starting up
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH13976
Shut it down by holding down the power button for about 10 seconds. Hold down the Option key and start up your computer again. Keep holding down the Option key until one or more disk icons appear on your screen. Select one of the disks. After your computer starts up, choose Apple menu > System Preferences, click Startup Disk, and select a disk.
OS X Mavericks: Login Options pane of Users & Groups preferences
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14415
Cheers,
- Judy

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