Alright, so I'm running what I believe to be the most recent version of Windows 10 (not sure how to check but I've installed all the latest updates and everything) and over the past night. Or rather, over the past few hours, I've been having a lot of problems with my operating system.
Problems in the vein of multiple programs either crashing or lagging (such as Paint Tool Sai and Steam) as well as simple actions like opening the task manager and emptying the recycle bin have sometimes made Windows Explorer crash entirely.
I even had one issue where after "shutting down" my computer, my actual tower continued being on until I forcefully turned it off. And after that I had to run a startup repair to get it working again.
Now, about three days ago I installed an SSD into my PC and put Windows 10 on it so that my OS would run faster. And it's been working a charm... Right up until tonight.
A bit earlier tonight I tried downloading a few things and found that the downloads (which were .rar files) weren't extracting properly. And one of the files didn't even download properly. When I tried to move one of the files to an external USB, the problems began.
Fast forward to about now and I've restarted my system a few times, run Start-up repair and am running a full, thorough Malewarebytes scan: It's currently at Heuristic Analysis and has found nothing so far. And I ran a standard scan previously and found nothing, then, either. But I don't know what else could be happening.
I also physically checked both my main HDD and the new SSD. There doesn't seem to be anything out of the ordinary with those. But then again I wouldn't know what to look for. I've moved the PC a few times recently to plug in some headphones, but it was gentle, easy-going movement and it's hardly the first time.
Also, I just tried to run DxDiag, and got some error messages telling me that it had trouble reading things in the "Input" section. I have no idea what this means.
Anybody got any ideas? Because I'm at my wits end here. I can't run half my programs for more than 10 minutes without them either locking up, lagging or just straight up crashing.
Problems in the vein of multiple programs either crashing or lagging (such as Paint Tool Sai and Steam) as well as simple actions like opening the task manager and emptying the recycle bin have sometimes made Windows Explorer crash entirely.
I even had one issue where after "shutting down" my computer, my actual tower continued being on until I forcefully turned it off. And after that I had to run a startup repair to get it working again.
Now, about three days ago I installed an SSD into my PC and put Windows 10 on it so that my OS would run faster. And it's been working a charm... Right up until tonight.
A bit earlier tonight I tried downloading a few things and found that the downloads (which were .rar files) weren't extracting properly. And one of the files didn't even download properly. When I tried to move one of the files to an external USB, the problems began.
Fast forward to about now and I've restarted my system a few times, run Start-up repair and am running a full, thorough Malewarebytes scan: It's currently at Heuristic Analysis and has found nothing so far. And I ran a standard scan previously and found nothing, then, either. But I don't know what else could be happening.
I also physically checked both my main HDD and the new SSD. There doesn't seem to be anything out of the ordinary with those. But then again I wouldn't know what to look for. I've moved the PC a few times recently to plug in some headphones, but it was gentle, easy-going movement and it's hardly the first time.
Also, I just tried to run DxDiag, and got some error messages telling me that it had trouble reading things in the "Input" section. I have no idea what this means.
Anybody got any ideas? Because I'm at my wits end here. I can't run half my programs for more than 10 minutes without them either locking up, lagging or just straight up crashing.