First I'll start off by apologizing if you believe this is in the wrong section of the forum, a number of people have suggested a number of different opinions on what this problem might be and I'm honestly stumped as to what the problem is myself.
A week ago my old computer died quite suddenly and I went and bought a new one asap. This computer is ridiculously fast and way more space that my previous one and seemed to be working fine initially. After everything was installed and ready to go I noticed that on start up and reaching my desktop I couldn't open any programs.
I was patient and waited for everything to load up first before trying to open anything and it being a new pc there is hardly anything on it. Strangely, while the program (say Firefox, a videogame etc) would not appear to open on my screen or show up in Applications under task manager they ARE showing up in the processes tab.
Additionally opening things like My Computer works, but if I attempt to do anything like move files etc. the computer freezes. Sometimes the programs do eventually open, but at one time it opened two hours after trying to open it the first time.
At times when I turn on my pc its like the problem vanishes, I can open programs no problem and everything is running smoothly. Im typing this from a laptop because currently it is in one of its unusable states.
Any thoughts on what this might be? I don't even know where to begin at this point.
A week ago my old computer died quite suddenly and I went and bought a new one asap. This computer is ridiculously fast and way more space that my previous one and seemed to be working fine initially. After everything was installed and ready to go I noticed that on start up and reaching my desktop I couldn't open any programs.
I was patient and waited for everything to load up first before trying to open anything and it being a new pc there is hardly anything on it. Strangely, while the program (say Firefox, a videogame etc) would not appear to open on my screen or show up in Applications under task manager they ARE showing up in the processes tab.
Additionally opening things like My Computer works, but if I attempt to do anything like move files etc. the computer freezes. Sometimes the programs do eventually open, but at one time it opened two hours after trying to open it the first time.
At times when I turn on my pc its like the problem vanishes, I can open programs no problem and everything is running smoothly. Im typing this from a laptop because currently it is in one of its unusable states.
Any thoughts on what this might be? I don't even know where to begin at this point.