Windows 10: Computer randomly freezes for around 5-10 seconds, taskbar will turn black and I get a...

Hello,So this started occurring recently and I'm just curious as to what's causing it. Sometimes [maybe once every few days or so] my computer will randomly freeze after I open an application or something for about 5-10 seconds, the taskbar will disappear, Discord will close and then my screen will go black and I get the Windows "Just a moment..." blue box on a black background. I'm just wondering what's the deal with that and if it's anything I need to be overly worried about.

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Windows 10 freezes randomly

I had already tried turning off fast startup, to no avail.
Will look at the list you provided, thanks. Hard to do when computer freezes on the Windows loading screen though. *Biggrin

I had tried that as well... no result.

 

Computer freezes randomly, screen goes black for a few seconds.

As described in the title, sometimes my computer randomly starts to freeze (except the sound, only the screen/cursor freezes), the after half a second the screen goes black for a few seconds, then my desktop appears and the windows begin poping up on my screen again. During this issue, nightlight gets deactivated until I turn it off and on again. This used to happen once a week, and has been going on for two months now, but now it's starting to get more and more frequent.

The screen turn-on-turn-off thing doesn't seem like what happens when pressing Windows+Ctrl+Shift+B. This command does a beep and does not deactivate night light.

 

Windows 10 freezes randomly


Turning off fast startup helped with this issue for another user on a different forum. For newbies, see steps Windows 10 Freezes Randomly.