TS1541 Finder's misbehaving.

Hello y'all.  I am unable to get into Finder.  I get an error message which says:  The application "Finder" unexpectedly quit while trying to restore its windows. Do you want to try to restore its windows again?"  The message box gives me the option to restore or not to restore, but it won't let me restore or not restore.

And if that alone doesn't work, see if you can do this...
Safe Boot , (holding Shift key down at bootup), use Disk Utility from there to Repair Permissions, test if things work OK in Safe Mode.
Then move these files to the Desktop for now...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktop.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.recentitems.plist
Reboot & test.
PS. Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive.

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