Let me start off by explaining what happened yesterday... it began by me not having sound only in one of my programs which was easy enough to fix as I just had to start another version of it and somehow that had worked, so not complaining about that... then it progressed onto the task manager being blank and not being able to open google chrome. Since I had some backups in system restore I decided to do that. It kept telling me an antivirus was blocking it even though I had disabled both malwarebytes AND windows defender completely. I saw a tutorial on youtube which idiotically told me to go into safe mode from msconfig - which I know now NEVER to do - and caused me to ultimately be kinda forever stuck in safe mode. For hours I was scouring the internet for a solution, desperately trying to get back out of safemode, restarting my pc countless times, when finally, both my monitors froze up and had this weird pixelated glitch on them. Then I had the error "critical process died" and was now stuck in a boot loop. Uh oh. I then spent a total of 5 hours (not joking) again, scouring the internet for solutions to this error but to no avail. When all hope had been lost, I found this forum talking about how you can do a system restore from cmd with just commands and I was like, why not - I've got nothing to lose at this point, except for my sanity, tried the 3 commands and... hey whad'ya know, it actually worked! I'm still very pissed off though as now I'm back to square one and all those hours of work and stress were for nothing... anyway, back to the current issue, task manager is still blank, google chrome somehow miraculously started working again but all sounds from programs aren't even though I can still hear myself. I've tried reinstalling drivers, disabling and re enabling them, changing the frequency, basically anything obvious you can think of... Please anyone provide me with suggestions on what I can do while still keeping my files as I don't really wanna reset my whole pc once again :/