[SOLVED] Windows 10 acting very strange

[Nitrozzz]

so my 'type here to search' is literally broken I can press the windows icon to the bottom left however when I try press on 'Type Here To Search' It would literally either not respond or just disappear and to bring it back I'd just press the windows key. I have no clue what's going on and if anyone got a solution I would highly appreciate it. and before I had an issue where I was able to actually press on it and i am able to type however it would just it that it will keep on checking everything for the file however nothing would be displayed apart from the loading blue dots at the top of the search menu

Windows 10

 

[Colif]

See if any of these help - https://www.lifewire.com/fix-windows-10-search-4176188

 

[Nitrozzz]

and now when i open up microsoft edge, it will literally instantly close...
what is going on im so confused

 

[Colif]

have you tried safe mode?

go to settings/update & security/recovery
under advanced startup, click restart now
this loads windows into a blue menu
choose troubleshoot
choose advanced
choose start up options
click the restart button
choose a safe mode (it doesn't matter which) by using number associated with it.
Pc will restart and load safe mode

is it any better here?

 

[Nitrozzz]

have you tried safe mode?

go to settings/update & security/recovery
under advanced startup, click restart now
this loads windows into a blue menu
choose troubleshoot
choose advanced
choose start up options
click the restart button
choose a safe mode (it doesn't matter which) by using number associated with it.
Pc will restart and load safe mode

is it any better here?

nope still won’t allow me to even bring up the menu or even type here to search nor does cotTana work anymore 😢

 

[Colif]

So it doesn't work in safe mode or you can't get that far?

which version of win 10 are you using?
right click start
choose run...
type winver and press enter
current version is 1909 build 18363.476

just wondering if a repair install will fix it.

 

[Nitrozzz]

I did get to safemode however still the search bar wasn't functioning. and ill try that right now thanks for th =e huge help and its up to date i just checked

windows 10 home

 

[Nitrozzz]

and its super weird because apps like cpu z will just load for 6% and just turn off microsoft edge closes upon start fortnite gets some errors in which it it crashes as soon as i open it so many errors id kwhat to do only thing the game rust is shutting down upon start too idk

 

[Colif]

Home is the edition...

win 10 gets a new version every 6 months for free and your PC could be on any of them, hence why I asked you to run winver.
Knwoing which version you have will help me figure out solutions.

If it happens in safe mode, its not being caused by another program.

what anti virus are you running? have you done a scan recently?

 

[Nitrozzz]

i know i checked and it was current version is 1909 build 18363.476 thats why i said its up to date sorry for mis understanding and no i dont have anti-virus however ive literally installed like 4 programs since the update in windows 10 and theyre all 200% trusted

 

[Colif]

what are details of PC?

try running defender and see if it finds anything. i doubt it.

try doing this since you on newest now - https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/16397-repair-install-windows-10-place-upgrade.html

Might need to make a new user if that doesn't work. Sometimes profiles just go odd.

everything closing is an odd problem. Have you run any scans on hard drives?

 

[Nitrozzz]

so i try make another user and it will come up with the Microsoft account window then closes after 1 second of opening

I have windows on an SSD and before reinstalling windows i did format it but i dont think ive done any scans unless=.

and its not everything closing its just like some apps idk its weird like google chrome works perfectly without any issues so does steam itself yeah

 

[Colif]

how many drives do you have? are the non working apps on a particular drive or it doesn't matter?

I would copy anything off C you want to keep. Windows sounds a little sickly. Just in case.

Does file explorer work? (WIn +e). If so, try repair install, will tell us if its windows or not.

 

[Nitrozzz]

I do not care to save any information on the hard drive and no not particularly for it being on a specific drive.
I have two drivers being one HDD and one SSD. Windows on the SSD. File explorer works normally.

 

[Colif]

Try this
right click start button
choose powershell (admin)
type SFC /scannow and press enter
once its completed, copy/paste this command into same window:
Repair-WindowsImage -Online -RestoreHealth and press enter
SFC fixes system files, second command cleans image files, re run SFC if it failed to fix all files and restart PC

Try running chkdsk C: /f on ssd in command prompt with admin rights
run chkdsk d: /f /r on HDD only, in command prompt with admin rights. (Or whatever drive letter is of the hdd)
both will show 2 paragraphs after you press enter, press Y to agree to run at startup, restart PC to let them run (hdd may not show this message)

 

[Nitrozzz]

Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix some of them.
For online repairs, details are included in the CBS log file located at
windir\Logs\CBS\CBS.log. For example C:\Windows\Logs\CBS\CBS.log. For offline
repairs, details are included in the log file provided by the /OFFLOGFILE flag.

and now I did the Repair-WindowsImage -Online -RestoreHealth and its currently running=, how long does this take usually?

 

[Colif]

once you finish the 2nd scan, run SFC again and it should be able to fix the files it didn't the first time.
2md command corrects the files SFC uses to replace files.

2nd isn't that long normally, I ran it last week

 

[Nitrozzz]

mines stuck at Running [oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ]

more than 1 o needed like about 10 more

 

[Colif]

well, it is fixing the files that it needs to so that sfc can correct the system files.

Everytime I run it, it never finds anything so I don't have a clue how long it takes to fix a problem. Let it go. as it might be answer to your questions.

The 2nd command is a DISM command. Deployment Image Servicing and Management (DISM) is a command-line tool that is used to mount and service Windows images before deployment. You can use DISM image management commands to mount and get information about Windows image (. wim) files

Image files are used by windows to install itself. Your PC has a compressed version of the image file stored on it and DISM uses the original files to replace to ones in the list SFC uses to fix files.

 

[Nitrozzz]

alright thanks for the huge help btw

 

[Colif]

I have to go soon as its 2.40am, but if SFC/DISM don't fix the problem, try a repair install.

If that doesn't fix it, could try a reset. You lose all your programs that way. repair install just replaces windows, everything else should work and be there afterwards.

clean install might be fastest if you don't care about drive contents. unplug hdd if you do it, it stops windows putting boot partition on hdd then. follow this guide: https://forums.tomshardware.com/faq/how-to-do-a-clean-installation-of-windows-10.3170366/

 

[Nitrozzz]

okay thank u im mostlikely just going to do that i appreciate it

 

[Colif]

GL, hope its all you need.

sure sounded like something was broken in windows.