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nerdyplayer
Jan 18, 2026Copper Contributor
windows 10's update turned dell laptop in brick
Last security update on Jan 13th broke my laptop. Every program keeps freezing and doesn't do anything. Even when I open task manager it may run for a minute but soon it will freeze, and can't even ...
Eskoolaid23
Jan 18, 2026Copper Contributor
I'm starting to think the same thing happened with Win 11. The programs don't freeze, but when I'm on Steam for example and I try launching a game, nothing happens. It's probably my terrible WD Black P10 External hard drive being a meat stick, but this stuff has never happened before. I can't even shut down my laptop because clicking "shut down" from the start menu does nothing and even worse, clicking restart doesn't restart my laptop either. It just gets stuck in the process of trying to restart.