software problems AutoCad and Autodesk combo renders my PC nearly useless.

[Lios]

Hello. I recently started apprenticeships in my school (loosely regarding my field of study but school is a school) and on the first day of them, we had to make student accounts on Autodesk and download Autocad. Everything went fine for like 3/4 days and suddenly when I was attending class on Microsoft Teams, writing something in notepad, and obviously playing games from time to time suddenly every app excluding Chrome, Firefox, Discord, Steam, and maybe Asus GPU Tweak II closed. After trying to reopen notepad, writing something for less than 20 seconds and it again closing itself I tried to scan my computer with Malwarebytes (same story, closed itself) and scanner included with Windows 10 and found that there is no trace of malware on my PC. Long story short I tried resetting Windows via the reset tool in Update and Security section, to no avail (stopped for hours on 21%). Tried Instaling Linux on separate USB to use wipe on SSD and 3TB HDD (leaving 1TB HDD with important data), and Windows 10 installation program on another, which partially worked. Apt/yum and other commands weren't working on that particular Linux so I skipped it and used clean command on Diskpart and installed new Windows - the problem did not solve itself. After that I installed Ubuntu, first wipped SSD which took hours and hours (it was only 275GB), then DD'ied both 3TB HDD and SSD (took literally 20 hours ), formated them, cleaned them again in diskpart, and installed fresh windows (2/3 times because it kept splitting data- 50 mb on HDD and 509 mb on SSD, before every installation I cleaned disks) the problem disappeared. Until this Monday where I had to install that thing again (I don't know why did I agree to that) and the problem showed itself. Fortunetly I disabled Autodesk opening on every start up of PC and had like >2 minutes of window to uninstall all of Autodesk/Cad related application, expect the genuine service because you can't uninstall it (what?). After that purge everything went fine until today where out of nowhere things started to happen again.

 

And how do I know that it is AutoCad's doing you may ask? Well, nothing like that ever happed to me, I had Autodesk and Eagle before for 1/2 years and not a single problem, I haven't installed anything in like 2 weeks before the start of apprenticeships, everything went fine after fresh install until I reinstalled AutoCad or maybe it is paranoia, who knows?. So is there anything left for me other than waiting another 20 hours for Destroy Disk to finish its job (maybe shred will be faster)?

If anyone didn't catch what the problem is, here is an explanation:
For example, I wanted to write something in notepad, I open it, can write for 3-10 seconds, and boom, it closes itself. I want to play something on steam, I log in (somehow), press launch game, game launches, and boom, it closes itself. Then I want to write on this forum for help, I open chrome, can somehow write that long-ass story about how to render my PC semi-useless, and boom, nothing happens, chrome works. I don't know what is more wrong with this whole situation: one of the most popular programs for it's purposes (from what I heard) renders my PC useless, the thing that it lets some applications work and others not, or maybe that I purged everything that I humanly could with the resemblance to AutoCad/Desk and my "beloved" Widnows is still f'd up. I would love to attach some recording of it happening but Bandicam is on "killitself" list of programs.

 

My setup is:

CPU - Ryzen 5 3600x

GPU - Asus TUF gaming rtx 3070 OC

Mobo - Gigabyte B450 AORUS ELITE

RAM - Patriot 16GB (2x8GB) 3600MHz CL18

SSD - I think it's Crucial 275 GB (I got it as replacement for Kingstone drive that I don't know why completly failed)

HDD#1 - Western Digital Blue 3TB

HDD#2 - Western Digital Blue 1TB

[DailyProcrastinator]

Have you monitored utilization while running these programs? You could be using up all 16GB of RAM. 

[Lios]

2 hours ago, DailyProcrastinator said:

Have you monitored utilization while running these programs? You could be using up all 16GB of RAM. 

From what I remember all of those programs were behaving normally in Task Manager. They would appear, take whatever resources they needed, and after few seconds just disappeared. I have literally like +20 chrome tabs opened in the back and never seen anything like this. I have even tried opening notepad without anything else ant still it would close itself. Funny enough while writing above rant, the problem remained but now after getting back home and turning PC, there is no sign of it. But Still, I think I will just DD at least SSD because it should be ready in maybe 2 hours.