Windows 10 Unresponsive

[Wentles]

Left my pc (Windows 10) on for roughly a week and just today it has had some weird glitch, can still move the curser but cannot shut down or restart (won’t even enter the loading screen) and power button isn’t working. Any program I try to open becomes unresponsive tabbing into it and control panel won’t open and task manager froze, there was no suspicious software using a large amount of system resources and my Antivirus (one of the few things still working) has no flags. Genuinely stumped on what to do since I can’t even restart it, anyone had a similar issue who might be able to help?

[rcmaehl]

Did you hold the power button for a full 15 seconds?

[Wentles]

That didn’t seem to work but I pressed and held and it shut down completely, seems to be working fine so far. Didn’t know you could full shutdown like that

[HeroRareheart]

8 minutes ago, Wentles said:

Left my pc (Windows 10) on for roughly a week and just today it has had some weird glitch

Tip; don't do that. Leaving computers on for extended periods of time can cause problems like this to show up. It's also bad for hardware to be on all the time, things like hard drives which will have occasional reads and wrights to them will be spinning up unnecessarily more and their lifespan can be cut short. The only thing I leave running all the time is my server because the hardware, OS, and software running on that OS is designed for continuous operation. Even then I still have to restart it sometimes because shit happens.

 

TLDR; turn off your computer when you can, it's better for it and it'll avoid stuff like this happening.