My Windows 10 PC keeps freezing every day.

[davemicrowave]

My PC is starting to randomly freeze/crash every once a week and I'm forced to restart it. But recently, it's doing it everyday. I'm worried that this is gonna get worse from now on. What's going on with my computer?!

By the way, I have a windows 10 desktop pc and I've owned it for about a year now.

System Specs: GTX 1050 TI, FX 6300, 8 GB ram (Single stick), Windows 10 64 bit.

 

[bvanevery]

I am going to guess that you have been victimized by Microsoft's "Fall Creators Update". The problems are expressed differently on every system, but the general form is MS has uninstalled one of your drivers in favor of their own, or they have caused a bug in a driver that previously ran fine under an older system. I've experienced 3 computers wacked by this recently. 1 was an ancient laptop of mine and it wiped out my graphics card driver, which had to stay the same because it's a legacy product. 1 was my Dad's internal wifi adapter being made unusable when previously it worked fine; after many diagnostic heroics we bought an exeternal Netgear adapter. 1 was my Mom's computer having inexplicable slowdowns, a shutdown, and inability to even turn back on for awhile. I never did figure out what caused that problem, but I "solved" it by disabling a number of startup services and removing startup apps that weren't needed. All of these things had the common denominator of being triggered by the "Fall Creator's Update".

I'm sorry I can't provide specific advice on how to fix your problem. There are legions of materials already out there about this update and what to do though. Search around and you will find your answers; just keep in mind that this is likely the problem.

If you go back to a previous Windows restore point, before the Fall Creator's Update, and your system works fine, then that's pretty strong evidence the FCU is responsbile. Hmm, what does "FCU" sound like if you say it fast?

 

[davemicrowave]

I am going to guess that you have been victimized by Microsoft's "Fall Creators Update". The problems are expressed differently on every system, but the general form is MS has uninstalled one of your drivers in favor of their own, or they have caused a bug in a driver that previously ran fine under an older system. I've experienced 3 computers wacked by this recently. 1 was an ancient laptop of mine and it wiped out my graphics card driver, which had to stay the same because it's a legacy product. 1 was my Dad's internal wifi adapter being made unusable when previously it worked fine; after many diagnostic heroics we bought an exeternal Netgear adapter. 1 was my Mom's computer having inexplicable slowdowns, a shutdown, and inability to even turn back on for awhile. I never did figure out what caused that problem, but I "solved" it by disabling a number of startup services and removing startup apps that weren't needed. All of these things had the common denominator of being triggered by the "Fall Creator's Update".

I'm sorry I can't provide specific advice on how to fix your problem. There are legions of materials already out there about this update and what to do though. Search around and you will find your answers; just keep in mind that this is likely the problem.

If you go back to a previous Windows restore point, before the Fall Creator's Update, and your system works fine, then that's pretty strong evidence the FCU is responsbile. Hmm, what does "FCU" sound like if you say it fast?

Yeah it most probably was the FCU that effed my pc. Cause after that update I started encountering this freezing issue. I just watched a video that showed how to fix the freezing issue by changing the power setting from moderate usage to off. So I just modified my power setting to off and I'm gonna see if my pc keeps freezing. If my pc doesn't freeze in two weeks I'm gonna assume it fixed my problem. Fingers crossed.

 

[bvanevery]

I went down the power setting road with my Mom's computer. It didn't seem to solve her problem, but much like a carburetor with gunk in it, maybe it helped after I did other things later.

In my Mom's case I had no excessive CPU usage, but HD usage was 100% long after startup, and that can definitely choke a system in various ways. I disabled a lot of things like the search and indexing services. Found out there's no way to get rid of Cortana. Deleted any bloatware startup apps I could. Might have had a Malwarebytes installation fighting Norton, it shouldn't have been doing anything because the trial license was expired but maybe it did anyways. After all this housecleaning HD usage went down to normal levels in a reasonable amount of time and stayed there.

Oh and I tried literally 10 previous NVIDIA drivers and none of that changed anything. It wasn't the problem, so I went back to the most recent one. System is healthy.