Boots to desktop pic and dock but no top bar

I can get to my wallpaper pic, the dock, but nothing after that. I get the message that spotlight quit unexpectedly and it won't go beyond that. It was running sluggishly this morning with many spinnig colored balls. I did a software update, the 3 latest ones, and this boot up issue started. I did a pram reset with no change. Any ideas?

I ended up at the Genius bar this afternoon, after they verified the HD was okay, they did an archive and reinstall, no data was lost. My computer was still running sluggishly though, which it was before I tried the updates. I hate to admit this, but my HD was almost full. I only had 5 GB left, not enough space for the updates when I tried again at home. I believe it barely had enough room for the update when I tried it the first time and when it tried to boot up, it couldn't. I deleted over 10 GB, the updates installed and all is well. I meticulously delete data on our hard drives at work for our MR machine because of learning the hard way what happens when a drive is over 95% full, too bad I didn't bring that lesson home with me. Thanks for trying to help. Lesson learned.

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Software opens in menu and dock but not on screen, can't use any of it.

I am the administrator and my husband is a user with limited access to system preferences. On Thursday my side of the computer has gone crazy. It worked in the morning. The electric meter was replaced on my house in the afternoon which may have caused a power surge. On Friday when I turned it on I got a message that my time and date was not correct and that some software might act weird because the date was before 2001. I tried opening system preferences to correct the date. It showed open in the menu and in the dock but never opened on the screen so I had no access to it. The hated beach ball spun forever. All of the software I have tried to open does the same thing. They won't force quit. I have to manually turn off the computer and when I turn it back on they have been shut down.
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