Help with a variety of problems that all started happening at once?

Yesterday my computer was working fine with no problems whatsoever. The only thing I did recently was install Borderlands: The PreSequel and a service called Evolve. I installed both these yesterday and my computer still worked fine. Today I started experiencing a variety of odd problems.
First, my internet wasn't working. I have my desktop connected to my laptop with an Ethernet cable and get internet via my laptop's wifi. This has been working fine for the past month since I started but today it was not and I had to type the commands
ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew
to get it working again. I now have to do this every time I boot up my pc, or else internet will not work. It works immediately after entering this. I played games for about 2 hours and then opened Google Chrome, or tried to. I am running Windows 8.1. Nothing happens when I click google chrome. It worked yesterday, now it does not. So I opened internet explorer which works fine and found a youtube video that is a tutorial on how to fix google chrome not opening. There was no video, the usual youtube ad did not play, I got audio, and my computer sort of froze. I could move the mouse but nothing would highlight. I clicked close and it took a few seconds and then closed.

I figured evolve may be causing problems as it has to do with networking. So I attempted to uninstall it. When I clicked on it in uninstall or change a program nothing happened. So I clicked it again. It said I need to wait until the previous program is finished installing. I waited a couple minutes and nothing happened.
Now I thought maybe If I restarted my computer it would fix everything. I shut if off normally through windows 8.1 and it said the usual "shutting down" and the display turned off, but the computer fans and leds stayed on for about a minute after the display turned off. After this I booted it up and shut it down again and the same thing happened. So I attempted to do a system restore, or windows 8's version of it, and when I click "get started" nothing happens. All of these problems are still happening. I have no clue as to why. I built my computer the end of September this year. My Specs:
i5-4590
Sapphire Dual x R9 280x
8gb ram
1tb HDD
Asrock h81m hds

I have spent the past hour researching and trying different solutions. I am lost as to what to do. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for reading all of this.

*Update*
When evolve fails to boot up it has a link that says "help" and chrome is my default browser and this opens google chrome. I attempted to watch a video in chrome and it worked fine. This is one problem solved, I guess. Any help for the other problems would be greatly appreciated!