Windows Processes Not Working

Question

I held the power button to force shut down since an application had remained frozen for a while, and upon powering back on no applications or processes work other than Windows Powershell. My browser wont open, settings wont open, i cant right click anything other than the start button, and even attempting to shutdown or restart wont work.

Answer 1

That is great news, I am glad you found a solution, great troubleshooting.

Answer 2

your method made my screen display black so i talked to my friend and i used the task manager bind (ctrl+shift+esc) immediately after sign in and that fixed everything, thank you for the response though

Answer 3

Just checking with you, how are you proceeding with this problem?

Answer 4

Hi, I am Dave, I will help you with this.

Start your PC, just as Windows attempts to load (spinning dots), press and hold Power Button for 5 - 10 seconds to perform a Hard Shut Down

Do this twice

On the third start Windows will boot into the Recovery Environment and from there you can access System Repair, Safe Mode, Command Prompt... etc.

Please try each option one at a time, then see if Windows will boot to a stable environment.

Go to Troubleshoot - Advanced Option - Startup Repair

See if Windows startup can repair itself

Go to Troubleshoot - Advanced Option - System Restore

Check to see if you have a restore point you can go back to