Power outage - help fixing problems

Happy New Year All,
Follwoing a sudden local power outage, my iMac (Late 2011, OS X Mountain Lion) restarted OK and I was able to continue working.
Two problems remain.
1. I use an online backup service (JustCloud) which was running at the time of the power outage but now the application will not start showing the error message "...cannot start as there is already another instance running on this computer". How do I fix this problem please?
2. Despite the "Open windows on restart" box NOT being checked, a Safari window opens automatically on startup / login. Again, any thoughts on how to fix this.
Many thanks in advance

Thanks for the tip.
The problem was that the process was not showing in Activity Monitor - or at least it wasn't obvious what the process was called as it certainly wasn't called JustCloud!
Anyway, after an overnight rest I logged onto a different account on the iMac and all seemed well. I thne logged back into my own account and tadah - all working OK.
I have repaired disk permissions and rset safari in any case and JustCloud is backing up as I type.
Thanks for your response in any case - much apprecaited

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