I've been having a good relationship with Windows 10 since its release - maybe not as fast as Win 7, and live tiles never really worked for me, and wifi/ethernet/other connectivity is a pain to manage, but I was doing fine. Up until a few days ago, when everything started working weirdly.
First it was the WiFi: if it was slow before this, now it was unbearably slow. My solution was grabbing said WiFi signal with my phone, then USB tethering it to the PC. No big deal. But then the computer started lagging; and it wasn't just the casual freezing, but apps and menus and panels would freeze as well. I reached the point of having 4 apps/folders open, all frozen, INCLUDING the task manager which I was trying to use to close the other stuff. Not fun.
Then the taskbar started going nuts: I could hardly use the search function since it didn't respond to input/didn't search anything, and most times I tried clicking on the windows logo or volume settings it was a good 30 seconds/minute before it responded, if at all. Settings would sometimes not open as well, and shutting the PC down or other things which required the start menu are very hard to perform.
Then, the ultimate issue: sometimes, while using Chrome or doing something else, the whole background will go green, taskbar and everything. It resets after about a minute or two for the desktop and 3-4 minutes for the taskbar, but I can't do anything other than use whatever window I had open before that happened. I can't even reset the PC unless I hit the cpu's button.
So, the question remains, is this "normal behaviour"? I should note my PC isn't old/can't run windows (even when apps were freezing/green screen, never had a cpu-memory peak of more than 60%), so I'm guessing it's something having to do with the OS. Any help?
Note: I don't have any virus as per McAfee's analysis. The most notoriously laggy app is WMP, which crashes basically every time I try to open it, or lags for a good 2 minutes, while it worked instantly and fine in Win 7.
First it was the WiFi: if it was slow before this, now it was unbearably slow. My solution was grabbing said WiFi signal with my phone, then USB tethering it to the PC. No big deal. But then the computer started lagging; and it wasn't just the casual freezing, but apps and menus and panels would freeze as well. I reached the point of having 4 apps/folders open, all frozen, INCLUDING the task manager which I was trying to use to close the other stuff. Not fun.
Then the taskbar started going nuts: I could hardly use the search function since it didn't respond to input/didn't search anything, and most times I tried clicking on the windows logo or volume settings it was a good 30 seconds/minute before it responded, if at all. Settings would sometimes not open as well, and shutting the PC down or other things which required the start menu are very hard to perform.
Then, the ultimate issue: sometimes, while using Chrome or doing something else, the whole background will go green, taskbar and everything. It resets after about a minute or two for the desktop and 3-4 minutes for the taskbar, but I can't do anything other than use whatever window I had open before that happened. I can't even reset the PC unless I hit the cpu's button.
So, the question remains, is this "normal behaviour"? I should note my PC isn't old/can't run windows (even when apps were freezing/green screen, never had a cpu-memory peak of more than 60%), so I'm guessing it's something having to do with the OS. Any help?
Note: I don't have any virus as per McAfee's analysis. The most notoriously laggy app is WMP, which crashes basically every time I try to open it, or lags for a good 2 minutes, while it worked instantly and fine in Win 7.
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