My desktop is losing all the icons and I cannot click anything

[korewahimitsu]

Right so basically, my PC runs fine normally but sometimes when I turn it on and try to load up a program it does this thing where I the desktop wallpaper shows but there are no icons and my mouse is loading, I cannot click the taskbar so I usually just reset my PC again until it doesn't happen. It usually takes about 5 minutes longer to connect to the internet after I reset the PC too (I have a USB wifi thing).

[Lord Vile]

35 minutes ago, korewahimitsu said:

Right so basically, my PC runs fine normally but sometimes when I turn it on and try to load up a program it does this thing where I the desktop wallpaper shows but there are no icons and my mouse is loading, I cannot click the taskbar so I usually just reset my PC again until it doesn't happen. It usually takes about 5 minutes longer to connect to the internet after I reset the PC too (I have a USB wifi thing).

Spec list? 

[korewahimitsu]

4 minutes ago, Lord Vile said:

Spec list? 

520w seasonic psu

Ryzen3 3200 G 

No GPU 

8gb 3200mhz ram

That's all that matters ig

[Lord Vile]

2 minutes ago, korewahimitsu said:

520w seasonic psu

Ryzen3 3200 G 

No GPU 

8gb 3200mhz ram

That's all that matters ig

What about your storage? HDD or SSD? 
 

You been doing anything shady on the internet like torrenting etc?

[korewahimitsu]

Just now, Lord Vile said:

What about your storage? HDD or SSD? 

Oh yeah, I forgot about that

I have 1tb Toshiba Hdd

I should probably also mention I only use the stock cooler and 1 extra small fan that came with my case

[Lord Vile]

3 minutes ago, korewahimitsu said:

Oh yeah, I forgot about that

I have 1tb Toshiba Hdd

I should probably also mention I only use the stock cooler and 1 extra small fan that came with my case

Could be an issue with the HDD is it very slow in general? I know it’s slow because it’s a HDD but even more so that is normal.
 

Otherwise it could be windows being windows. I’ve had to do a fresh install more than once because it kept cocking up. 

[korewahimitsu]

1 minute ago, Lord Vile said:

Could be an issue with the HDD is it very slow in general? I know it’s slow because it’s a HDD but even more so that is normal.
 

Otherwise it could be windows being windows. I’ve had to do a fresh install more than once because it kept cocking up. 

Fair enough, It's probably just windows then, the hdd seems to run at a normal.speed majority of the time. Thanks for your help anyway

[TomvanWijnen]

Could you perhaps do a CrystalDiskMark test (or similar) and try to compare it with similarly specced/aged harddrives?

 

Actually, I just remembered something else: I have a computer and when I would turn it on, it would often be pretty much unusable: nothing would load, everything was incredibly slow, etc. A simple restart almost always solved the issue. I don't remember if I've ever fixed that issue, but I do know that the harddrive that is in the PC is quite shoddy. (this was, however, on Windows 7)

[Gofer01]

Well besides the HDD disk this dude has only 8GB RAM in the system. I bet you a dime there is a lot of background programs being load up on the boot and is over whelming his computer. If it was my computer I would look at the task manager and see how much RAM being use. If it over 90% I would be looking to put 32GB DD4 RAM in my computer.

[Curious Pineapple]

2 minutes ago, Gofer01 said:

Well besides the HDD disk this dude has only 8GB RAM in the system. I bet you a dime there is a lot of background programs being load up on the boot and is over whelming his computer. If it was my computer I would look at the task manager and see how much RAM being use. If it over 90% I would be looking to put 32GB DD4 RAM in my computer.

Who needs 64GB?? I do perfectly fine with my 56

[Gofer01]

Good for you keep your odd number 56 RAM memory and go play your games. I need all the RAM I can get plus a AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 16-core processor, RAID 0 m.2 2TB boot drive plus RAID 10 12TB data drive to render videos.

 

[Damascus]

18 hours ago, Gofer01 said:

Good for you keep your odd number 56 RAM memory and go play your games. I need all the RAM I can get plus a AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 16-core processor, RAID 0 m.2 2TB boot drive plus RAID 10 12TB data drive to render videos.

 

It's called triple channel, what an absolutely bizarre response