Windows became extremly slow, then broke, i reinstalled windows and it is messy.

[i like xeons]

So, a couple days ago when i wanted to turn on my pc so i did, i put my password and after pressing enter it took really long. When windows finally booted, there were no icons on the desktop and i could not open apps on the taskbar. The desktop behaved like a application that is not responding and sort of "refreshed" a couple times. Eventually it did sort of load. However, many apps would not start and show a error that i don't fully remember

[it said something like: the service you wanted to run is not installed]. That included task manager and the setup.exe program on a bootable windows usb stick. Also networking did not work. So i reinstalled windows [clean install] and the issues were mostly fixed. But the following morning, i had similar issues to the previous day. I also did not mention that i had a issue where sometimes when booting it would say: windows needs to be repaired. But sometimes it would simply boot into windows.  It did work a couple times but then one time when it booted, there was no networking once again. Then the networking worked. I flashed the bios right as i was typing this post.

Also, right before i flashed the bios, windows booted into the setup screen you see after all files have been moved from the USB to the drive. So, does anyone know what is the cause and how to fix it?

[Darknighterror]

Download malwarebytes and check all drives

[i like xeons]

31 minutes ago, Darknighterror said:

Download malwarebytes and check all drives

So turns out the fix might have been running the System File Checker but there is a chance that it will break after some time.
Also with a clean install, wouldn't any viruses be deleted?

[Darknighterror]

6 minutes ago, i like xeons said:

So turns out the fix might have been running the System File Checker but there is a chance that it will break after some time.
Also with a clean install, wouldn't any viruses be deleted?

Maybe im missing something, but in theory only things that are associated with the deleted files.So if you have some malicious file that is still on your drive and not related to the windows install, it should be still there.

[manikyath]

that sounds very similar to the behavior i'd expect when your boot drive is dying, might be worth checking that before you spend hours upon hours of troubleshooting.

[Kilrah]

Try another clean install, but after doing a secure erase on your boot drive.

[i like xeons]

I put a different SSD and installed windows on it. If it works for 1 week then I will mark @manikyath's solution as the right one.

[i like xeons]

On 4/30/2024 at 11:33 PM, manikyath said:

that sounds very similar to the behavior i'd expect when your boot drive is dying, might be worth checking that before you spend hours upon hours of troubleshooting.

Yep, that was likely the drive, since i have basically no problems with the new one