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You have a hard disk error.
You got a low cost ssd with high fail rates
Quit chasing around software issues and replace it, and the sata cable.
I see it all the time.
Get a Samsung ssd or m.2
They have very few faults.
I think this will fix it.
Also look at the power supply.
Get a good one.
There is no cheap substitute for clean stable power.
Change out the SSD.
Some of them just work like crap.
You can Chase software issues if you like, but most computers seem ok with crappy software filled with viruses and malware and still run strong.
On a windows based PC, if it freezes, the hard disk stopped running pure and simple.
Probably not RAM (although I have seen bad RAM freeze a computer), almost always a balky hard dish or SSD, or cable or terrible power.
If you have more than one RAM module, run them one at a time an see if the computer freezes.
Quoted from Wickerman2:It's just the taskbar that freezes. It immediately unfreezes if I just open task mgr and cancel out.
Since everything on a windows PC runs through the hard disk via the swap file, freezing usually means the hard disk is balky.
Its hesitating to follow an instruction.
Many things can cause this, but my money is on a balky drive.
Quoted from Wickerman2:If I'm changing out SSD, that means I have to back up everything and reinstall Windows anyway right?
No, clone the drive as it is.
It will be just fine and start up normally.
Use clonezilla or any good copy program.
I use paragon.
Quoted from Wickerman2:Open slot on left, seems like I could install new ssd and clean OS there?[quoted image]
You can start over if you want.
But I would clone it first and see if it fixes it. Then you will know more.
If the clone fails, then make a new clean drive on the new ssd.
See if that fixes it.
Quoted from Wickerman2:So install new ssd and clone the drive to new ssd(removing old ssd from system), boot it up and see if it's fixed? If not do I need to wipe the new SSD to do a fresh Windows install basically?
Installing the OS from scratch wipes the drive clean, it formats it before writing to it.
You can erase the drive in the windows installer via the utility that helps you select the drive if you want.
Quoted from Wickerman2:So do that as last resort after I install new SSD and clone drive to it to see if it fixes issue?
Yes, absolutely.
It's what I would do.
If after that the problem persists, replace the RAM.
After that, its probably mainboard or bios or power related.
Quoted from Wickerman2:Also, create a restore point before any major updates in the future just in case
Restore points are weak at best.
Don't depend on them.
I've had like a 50/50 success rate with them.
Windows is old, hobbled and bloated.
I'm telling people to get chromebooks and chromeboxes now.
Way fewer problems.
Way faster.
Way more reliable.
Way cheaper than apple.
Same idea behind it.
Quoted from PinMonk:No, no, no. Chrome is Google. Chromebook is Chrome. Google is bad. They've gone full-on evil in the last couple years in the search for ever more profits. Less Google in your life is better, not more. Google's drive for money has accelerated its job of knowing everything about you. Tracking everything you do (even when of questionable methods) online, reading all your gmail, listening to everything you say (if you have nest hub or newer nest thermostats, or god forbid google home), and if you have android, tracking who you call and where you go. And this despite what you may have told it not to do. There are loopholes on everything they do, privacy-wise.
If you're not into Win 10, your options are Mac first, then Linux distant second. Mac will be the most compatible and have the least amount of weird issues.
Yes to all of that but:
Privacy is non existant today for most people, but I have nothing to hide.
Each time I boot up my windows laptop I have to wait 20 mins for it to update before I can use it.
Forced updates take my wifi printer offline and my other wireless devices periodically.
My chromebook is always ready and is ready to use in 10 seconds or less.
I find it more reliable in spite of the evil engine that runs it.
When pressed for time I never boot up my windows laptop. It can take 40 mins just to get online if it has set for a couple weeks.
I have at least 40 windows computers. I use them a lot, but at home I'm using my chromebook more and more.
It's just less work.
Quoted from PinMonk:It's not an issue of what you have to hide, it's an issue of do you want to be manipulated in ways you can't even understand. They don't hire scores of psychologists at Google to make your mental health better, they hire them to learn how to exploit people more effectively in their everyday lives.
Open a Macbook from hibernate and it's ready to go in seconds and you don't have a fraction of the privacy problems you do with a Chromebook. I understand the choice you made, but I would never, EVER recommend Chrome anything now that Google has taken a hard turn into evil territory.
Yep, I agree with all of that 100%
You are not wrong in your assesments.
Alexa recordings? Really bad.
But people buy what they can afford.
$179 for a new laptop?
People buy a lot of them.
I have changed out a lot more broken screens on chromebooks than windows laptops in the last couple years.
So, the people have spoken. At least in my area.
Quoted from Crash:Apple is almost as bad as Google. I bought a factory refurbished Dell Latitude laptop and run Linux Mint on it. If you're concerned about privacy... only use free and open source software, use a privacy centric browser like Brave, don't visit Google hosted sites, use OpenVPN, and blacklist the camera/microphone kernel modules.
Yep.
Quoted from EricHadley:I use Windows 10 and MacOS both on a regular basis and both are good. I’m an IT guy and if one of my computers starts flaking out I just take an hour and reload it from scratch and I’m good for another year of smooth operation.
Absolutely.
However in 3 years my chromebook has stayed the same and needed nothing.
It just runs.
It's not perfect and won't do some things, but it's always there when I need it.
In 10 seconds.
Quoted from PinMonk:Apple isn't even in the same UNIVERSE as Google for privacy abuses because their sole business is not marketing you as a product to advertisers. It's the reason Google and Facebook are taking such a hard turn into full-on evil. Money. The fines are tiny compared to the money they make, so they break the rules and pay the fines and their stock goes up anyway.
Brave is Chromium. Chrome is bad, as are all offshoots. Open source or not. Google is trying to do bad things with the Internet and privacy and Chrome/Chromium are part of the plan.
Agreed.
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