Windows 10 keeps freezing, applications won't open.

[Calavera]

Hi guys!

 

I'm a person who's been very fond of Windows 7 and yesterday I took the leap to upgrade to Windows 10.

I have an SSD and did the OS upgrade by installing the tool that Microsoft provided themselves.

 

Now that I have Windows 10, the PC keeps locking up.

 

 

Here's an example, I click Google Chrome, it opens up, after I click the bookmark to this LTT forums it keeps searching, then when I click again it says "not responding" and greys out.

At this point I can do whatever I want like click the Start button to restart, but it freezes or locks up, whatever you want to call it.

 

Just now I tried to start Chrome again and it just didn't fire up at all, nothing in Task manager either.

That's until I looked in "background processes" - I could see how I had like 6 Google Chromes fired up, no CPU usage, merely 7,5MB memory usage.

 

This doesn't only happen to Chrome by the way, Adobe programs same story, it doesn't start the program but it does show up in background processes.

 

 

Any idea what could cause this?

 

 

Specs: 

 

• CPU
  AMD Phenom II x4 945
• Motherboard
  AsRock 970DE3/U3S3
• RAM
  Corsair XMS3 4x2GB DDR3
• GPU
  Club3D Radeon R9 270 '14s series 2048MB GDDR5
• Case
  Chieftec Dragon
• Storage
  Crucial M4 128GB SSD & Crucial MX100 256GB SSD & 3TB + 1TB Seagate Barracuda HDD
• PSU
  Coolermaster 520W Modular
• Display(s)
  2X HP LP2065 1600X1200 60hz
• Cooling
  Hyper 212 EVO
• Keyboard
  Logitech G19
• Mouse
  Logitech G400S
• Sound
  Sennheiser HD201 + Philips Micro HI-FI CMT-HX30
• Operating System
  Windows 10

When this stuff happens I sometimes manage to press "restart" on the start menu, then the "shutting down" message appears but it keeps loading and the PC never shuts off, longest I've done that is 15 minutes.

[Jlryan]

Back-up your stuff and do a system refresh, this will do a "clean" install with the tool built into Windows. Should help clear out any rogue or conflicting stuff.