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I was listening to music before and suddenly the track glitched. The pc froze up and I had to force-restart it. Now the disk activity is surging (often up to 100%), I can’t run any programs, can’t open anything… The taskbar keeps blinking out and losing the icons before repopulating. I can’t even open file explorer to save some important work on a USB stick. I’m in another country, so am not on WiFi, and it won’t open the available networks anyway. Ive restarted it a number of times. I thought it had a virus protection but now I don’t even know. I’m not the most computer savvy. I’m really worried.
Which OS is installed? Any changes made in the past? Do you have issues while booting (freezes/no boot device found)? Please also try to press F10/F12 after power your system on to check if you have the possibility to run a onboard diagnostic. Here you can test the main parts like HDD and memory. If the system is still booting up normally please also start the Windows Defender or another AntiVirus-Tool.
