Now that you have a good backup of all of your personal files, I'd proceed as follows. That could be anything from cable problems to the HDD physically starting to fail. The IO operation error suggests hardware errors related to your Boot drive and that could be contributing to the Windows Search service error you're getting as well. I had to create direct shortcuts to my important folders as a solution to navigate around. I tried to close Chrome and all the other applications as well, but the PC was still lagging and freezing.Īdditional info if it could help: My file explorer also has this issue sometimes where the entire left side of the navigation list does not come out. I suspect it's a CPU problem but I'm not sure what's going on honestly. The first time it happened, everything went back to normal after about 15 mins. Now the PC is stuck at the loading screen with the group of dots circling around, just before the screen where I type my PC password. There were also multiple runtime brokers running for some reason, a system interrupts process and 'wasppx' process even though I did not have the windows store open.Įvery time I tried to close or open an application, it would take a long time to react.Īfter 15 mins, most of the apps were in a 'not responding' state. When it finally opened, the icon images for the processes could not load as well, it was just a blank square that occupied the space. I tried to start up Task Manager but it took at least 5 mins to appear. Then my whole PC started to slow down, almost freezing. Google Chrome said that it was 'Waiting for Cache' I tried to refresh the page and all the thumbnails at the side and profile images of the commenters and the person who posted the video could not be loaded. I was browsing the internet normally and suddenly my Youtube video stopped. I was wondering if anyone knows what could be the issue with my PC right now? I'll note down the sequence of events.

Windows explorer does not refresh