I am not very adept at these sort of things so forgive me.
My Windows 7 64-bit a few months ago began this new thing of when i was skyping it would freeze. The start menu would come up blank but still pull up, time would stay frozen the same. Hovering over running programs in the taskbar would show them but there was no x to close them like normal. My skype video would continue and sound would continue fine but any new things i'd try to open including the chat log on skype would be black. If i started task manager it would also be black. I'd have to ctrl + alt + del to log off or shut down in order to fix it.
I thought maybe it was skype but no it would do it without skype being opened if i was browsing on google chrome for a while. I'm honestly stumped. I scanned with kaspersky pure it found nothing. Malwarebytes found nothing.
My nvidia graphics card used to crash a lot when i was using skype or yahoo for video but then it stopped for a long time so i thought nothing of it because it never crashed while i was gaming.
I thought maybe it was windows so i made sure it was completely up to date. I ran a /sfc nothing came up. I did a chkdsk one very small bad sector comes up. I uninstalled Nvidia graphics drivers and re-installed them. I really despise the new Nvidia GeForce Experience because i've noticed no matter how many times i close it it likes to re-open on it's own. I made sure chrome was up to date and it doesn't have any extra plugins. I made sure flash was up to date. I cleaned up old windows update files did a defrag and cleaned out my history and un-needed crap.
I did notice this behavior started after i was watching something with VLC player but i didn't think that would trigger it to continue because it's happened ever since.
I've been banging my head against a wall lately trying to figure it out. My laptop is about 6 years old so i thought maybe this is a hardware failure at last but if it's something i can fix i'd like to.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
My Windows 7 64-bit a few months ago began this new thing of when i was skyping it would freeze. The start menu would come up blank but still pull up, time would stay frozen the same. Hovering over running programs in the taskbar would show them but there was no x to close them like normal. My skype video would continue and sound would continue fine but any new things i'd try to open including the chat log on skype would be black. If i started task manager it would also be black. I'd have to ctrl + alt + del to log off or shut down in order to fix it.
I thought maybe it was skype but no it would do it without skype being opened if i was browsing on google chrome for a while. I'm honestly stumped. I scanned with kaspersky pure it found nothing. Malwarebytes found nothing.
My nvidia graphics card used to crash a lot when i was using skype or yahoo for video but then it stopped for a long time so i thought nothing of it because it never crashed while i was gaming.
I thought maybe it was windows so i made sure it was completely up to date. I ran a /sfc nothing came up. I did a chkdsk one very small bad sector comes up. I uninstalled Nvidia graphics drivers and re-installed them. I really despise the new Nvidia GeForce Experience because i've noticed no matter how many times i close it it likes to re-open on it's own. I made sure chrome was up to date and it doesn't have any extra plugins. I made sure flash was up to date. I cleaned up old windows update files did a defrag and cleaned out my history and un-needed crap.
I did notice this behavior started after i was watching something with VLC player but i didn't think that would trigger it to continue because it's happened ever since.
I've been banging my head against a wall lately trying to figure it out. My laptop is about 6 years old so i thought maybe this is a hardware failure at last but if it's something i can fix i'd like to.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
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