My finder is caught in a never ending loop of wanting to restore windows

The Finder icon is bouncing up and down on the dock, there is a popup flashing on and off on the desktop which states "Restore Windows The Application "Finder" unexpectedly quit while trying to restore it's windows. Do you want to try to restore its windows again?" It offers the options "Don't restore windows and Restore windows". Neither of these actions respond. I have turned off; shut down etc... but it prevails.