Imac does not start after I deleted login plist

I had a popup message that my imac was not able to connect to my wifes computer. After reading on this forum that others had the same issue and it had been resolved by deleting com.apple.login...plist .... I did the same.
Now my computer is not starting at all. It shows the apple sign, gives the start sound and then white screen with rotating sign. Here it remains. If I could open the computer somehow I could restore that file because I didn't empty trash.
Considering that imac has the wireless keyboard I thing that it doesn't connect to it any more because all the methods to boot it in safe mode didn't make any difference.
Any suggestions?

I still don't understand why it won't boot, but if it's still in the Trash, as you say, you might try the following.
The following applies only if the loginwindow.plist you trashed was found in the HD Library, not your User LIbrary.,
Boot into single user mode. Hold down Cmd-s at the startup chime. You will get a screen with text only.
At the prompt, which will end in root# enter the following.  (For this, the  fsck -y ,keep entering that and hitting return until you get a message "The volume***** appears to be OK" )
NOTE:If you get
fsck_hfs: Volume is journaled. No checking performed.
fsck_hfs: Use the -f option to force checking.
Then just go ahead and enter the next command. Don't wait until you get "The volume*******appears to be OK."
fsck -y
next enter and hit return
mount -uw /
Then, finally, enter
mv /Users/"yourusername"/.Trash/Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow.plist /Library/Preferences/
(IMPORTANT: In the above command, there is a space after /com.apple.loginwindow.plist and before /Library/Preferences/)
Only put yourusername in quotes if it has spaces, otherwise the quotes are not needed.
When the root# prompt returns, enter reboot and hit return. (And pray)
Note: all of this, except for your user name, which will depend on what that is, must be entered precisely as given, noting case and all spaces or lack of. After hitting return for each of the given command wait until you get a new prompt.
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