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Need help! Can't open programs (Windows 10)

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34 minutes ago, AndE said:

I've had no issues with windows 10 since I installed it, until yesterday. I decided I would play some CS:GO with one of my friends, but when I went to open CS:GO, I got a black screen, no sound or anything. When I moused over the black screen it had the windows default cursor with an hourglass (My wait / loading cursor). So after leaving it for around 10 minutes and nothing happening, I clicked and it said CS:GO was not responding, so I just assumed it was an issue with CS:GO. After going to sleep and turning my PC on today, I can't open most of my programs. Google chrome works fine, but I can't open steam, discord, WoW etc. Battle.net opens fine, and WoW opens but has the same black screen issue I had with CS:GO. As for discord, it's just a gray box. Steam just won't even appear as a window.

NEED HELP!

 

EDIT: I bought a deathadder chroma yesterday, but everything worked fine except for CS:GO, not sure if this is useful information or not but I thought it may be important to include. It also installed Razer Chroma SDK.

 

EDIT2: Disk usage is always at 98 - 100%, even though the total usage in task manager is only showing around 4mb. I have 32GB Ram and a 2TB HDD

Update all your drivers. Then check to see if you have any virtual machines still running in the background

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I've had no issues with windows 10 since I installed it, until yesterday. I decided I would play some CS:GO with one of my friends, but when I went to open CS:GO, I got a black screen, no sound or anything. When I moused over the black screen it had the windows default cursor with an hourglass (My wait / loading cursor). So after leaving it for around 10 minutes and nothing happening, I clicked and it said CS:GO was not responding, so I just assumed it was an issue with CS:GO. After going to sleep and turning my PC on today, I can't open most of my programs. Google chrome works fine, but I can't open steam, discord, WoW etc. Battle.net opens fine, and WoW opens but has the same black screen issue I had with CS:GO. As for discord, it's just a gray box. Steam just won't even appear as a window.

NEED HELP!

 

EDIT: I bought a deathadder chroma yesterday, but everything worked fine except for CS:GO, not sure if this is useful information or not but I thought it may be important to include. It also installed Razer Chroma SDK.

 

EDIT2: Disk usage is always at 98 - 100%, even though the total usage in task manager is only showing around 4mb. I have 32GB Ram and a 2TB HDD

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34 minutes ago, AndE said:

I've had no issues with windows 10 since I installed it, until yesterday. I decided I would play some CS:GO with one of my friends, but when I went to open CS:GO, I got a black screen, no sound or anything. When I moused over the black screen it had the windows default cursor with an hourglass (My wait / loading cursor). So after leaving it for around 10 minutes and nothing happening, I clicked and it said CS:GO was not responding, so I just assumed it was an issue with CS:GO. After going to sleep and turning my PC on today, I can't open most of my programs. Google chrome works fine, but I can't open steam, discord, WoW etc. Battle.net opens fine, and WoW opens but has the same black screen issue I had with CS:GO. As for discord, it's just a gray box. Steam just won't even appear as a window.

NEED HELP!

 

EDIT: I bought a deathadder chroma yesterday, but everything worked fine except for CS:GO, not sure if this is useful information or not but I thought it may be important to include. It also installed Razer Chroma SDK.

 

EDIT2: Disk usage is always at 98 - 100%, even though the total usage in task manager is only showing around 4mb. I have 32GB Ram and a 2TB HDD

Update all your drivers. Then check to see if you have any virtual machines still running in the background

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43 minutes ago, gtx1060=value said:

Update all your drivers. Then check to see if you have any virtual machines still running in the background

Updating my drivers seems to have been a huge help with the disk %, after checking for virtual machines I found none, so I was confused as to why I was still having the issue of programs not opening as they should. I decided to do some research on the Razer Chroma SDK that had been installed. Turns out it isn't needed for the RGB to work, and it's more of a tool to develop my own things with chroma, such as audio visualisers. Since I had no interest in doing that, I uninstalled the Razer Chroma SDK and since then I've had no issues. The only problem I had was opening discord, which I solved by reinstalling.

 

TL:DR Razer SDK was one of the issues, drivers were the other.

 

Thanks for your help :)

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