Thank you for posting the query on Microsoft Community. I've managed to get Windows 10 to do a 'Reset' before it crashed, and this process is slowly happening now.ĭoes anyone have any idea what may have caused this, and whether a Reset will be enough to resolve the issue? I tried using the recovery USB had made using Microsoft's tool, but this did not appear to be bootable and the system carried on straight through to Windows 10 again (yes, I changed my boot order in BIOS). Again all of these were unable to be used, and I was forced to manually power down again. Again, after a long freeze-out, multiple task managers showing 100% disk usage but all apps using 0Īppeared, and were all not responding, as well as the prompt to force close Windows and the black screen. I gave up and manually powered down using the PC button.Īfter a reboot, the same thing happened again as I tried to open CCleaner to uninstall Firefox, as I thought this might have been the cause of the error. All of the Tast Manager were 'Not responding' and could not be closed, nor used to end any other processes.

Task Manager said that my Disk usage wasġ00%, but every process was using 0. After a couple of minutes, the screen went black, around 25 Task Manager windows opened, the start menu came up over the black background, and multiple 'Windows is not responding' prompts appeared. I tried pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del in an attempt to log out / shut down, but again I waited 5 minutes, and still all I had was a greyed out, frozen screen with a 'loading wheel' cursor. Eventually, I pressedĬtrl-Alt-Esc to bring up task-manager and end the process. I waited for it to grey-out and allow me to force close, but the force close prompt never appeared. Then Firefox crashed while I was browsing the web.

When I booted up my computer, everything seemed to work fine for the first 5 minutes.

I upgraded to Windows 10 around three weeks ago and have had no problems, until today.

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