My Windows 10 PC is already problematic. When it had one problem and I took to a supposed repair place, they screwed it up, and it ended up in a state that when you boot, you have to pick which Windows installation to use, the old installation is unbootable. Once booted, something weird happened with the Edge browser where if it runs at all, the computer is screwed. So I just can't run Edge, but sometimes it's run accidentally. Close it and hope it's ok, or reboot.
Earlier today it got run accidentally, closed it, seemed ok. Tonight I noticed things were weird. Alt-tab stopped working. ctrl-alt-delete worked but clicking task manager did nothing. Oh look, it things the old Edge process is running, and Edge says 'syncing all devices'. Close Edge again.
In this state I figured time to save documents, and reboot. So I save a couple and then it's really not working. Each document I'd clicked save nd close, still shows as a blank window I can't close. Other documents have 'preview screens' but I can't select or even close them. In other words, the mouse moves but nothing can be clicked.
Windows+r? Nothing. So no alt tab, no clicking any window, no pretty much anything. After maybe 5-10 minutes there's some disk activity. It's over. Another minutes and whaddya know, it just starts working again. I can bring up notepad processes, task manager pops up, I can close and open it. Back to normal.
Who knows. Two theories: Hardware problem that comes and goes (unlikely); or something from that Edge problem that decided to do something that really screwed up the Windows environment, temporarily. Haven't really heard of this. It's an older home build, I think around 2018, with i7-4790k and rx 570.
Earlier today it got run accidentally, closed it, seemed ok. Tonight I noticed things were weird. Alt-tab stopped working. ctrl-alt-delete worked but clicking task manager did nothing. Oh look, it things the old Edge process is running, and Edge says 'syncing all devices'. Close Edge again.
In this state I figured time to save documents, and reboot. So I save a couple and then it's really not working. Each document I'd clicked save nd close, still shows as a blank window I can't close. Other documents have 'preview screens' but I can't select or even close them. In other words, the mouse moves but nothing can be clicked.
Windows+r? Nothing. So no alt tab, no clicking any window, no pretty much anything. After maybe 5-10 minutes there's some disk activity. It's over. Another minutes and whaddya know, it just starts working again. I can bring up notepad processes, task manager pops up, I can close and open it. Back to normal.
Who knows. Two theories: Hardware problem that comes and goes (unlikely); or something from that Edge problem that decided to do something that really screwed up the Windows environment, temporarily. Haven't really heard of this. It's an older home build, I think around 2018, with i7-4790k and rx 570.
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