IMac freezes on startup - icons and dock displayed, but frozen

Hi
My iMac has just frozen. I have tried to restart it the desktop appears but nothing else is happening.
I hace also tried a safe mode restart but nothing seems to work.
Any ideas or suggestions would be extremely useful.

Hi,
I am having the same problems. I was in the process of copying some photos to a memory card, the process froze my other applications, I tried to cancel that application and then nothing worked. I had to do a hard close. When I turned it on again, I can use my other guest account profile, but mine will remain frozen and I can not choose anything. I can not even log out of my profile.
Need Help!

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