Question The latest weird thing on my haunted PC

Craig234

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My taskbar search box has a text area and on the right a graphic of DNA.

If I click the text box, or even mouse over the DNA graphic, the screen become a dark gray blurring of a browser window, and a spinning Windows circle of dots in the middle.

Same if I click the start button. I have to alt-tab to clear it. So I can't actually use them. Windows+R does open a 'run box'. I haven't restarted, that's next.

Never seen it. Sound familiar to anyone?
 
run malwarebytes

check windows integrity
open the command prompt as administrator and type DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth
https://www.lifewire.com/how-to-open-an-elevated-command-prompt-2618088
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us...em-files/bc609315-da1f-4775-812c-695b60477a93


clean boot