Windows 10: Freeze or slowdowns when I download with message : "Prepare security options" and disk...

My computer : Gigabyte Z690 UD DDR4, I7 12700K, 32 Go DDR4 @ 3200mhz Corsair Vengeance, MSI RTX 3070Ti SuprimX, SS Crucial BX500 1T0, Seasonic 750w, windows 10 64 bits. Sometimes I have freeze or slowdowns in games or in windows, web. 5 minutes ago, by going to youtube : slowdowns. Unable to launch task manager ctrl alt del. And with windows message: "Prepare security options". This problem happens randomly and I also have at the same time disk usage 100%. And this problem also occurs when i download games steam, Origin, Uplay. To try to solve the problem, I tried almost everything, all my c

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"Preparing Security Options" and freezing

Their is a possibility that
Antivirus Webroot Secure Anywhere is causing the problem. It may be causing this.
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Jack

 

"Preparing Security Options" and freezing

Hello all!

Recently, my computer freezes, my cursor moves really slow, my RGB corsair keyboard and RGB mousepad light start to move oddly, I can't close out any windows, can't click the start button..... but when I manage to CTRL-ALT-DELETE. a "preparing security options" menu comes up. Once I restart, things seem normal for a while, and then the same thing happens.

Only when I revert to an image backup does the problem go away for a time.

My computer was not doing this for months after I had it built, but is a problem all of a sudden. I even terminate the RGB Corsair cue to see if it was that... but the light animations just stopped, yet the computer still performed horribly as above.

• I don't think it's a virus because this has happened before a few months ago and so I just decided to do a fresh install a windows---and here we are.
• Updating SSD drivers I cannot do---as the Samsung drivers that were just released for the new NVME----I have heard are causing the SSDs to become bricks. So, no thanks!

There seem to be a few threads on this... but never a legit fix. Or, it seems to be that everyone has a different variation of the issue. Like right now, if I ctrl-alt-delete, the preparing security options doesn't come up, but once this bad boy freezes up, the ctrl-alt-delete combination causes that option menu to show up.

 

Preparing Security Options

The Preparing Security Option is neither a virus nor an application/program, it is simply an informational message that appears if the security is updating or needs to be updated.

Regarding with 20 opened Internet Explorer, yes, it affects the performance of your computer and one of the possible reason for that is the computer is trying to download an update online or on the web. We suggest booting your computer in
safe mode to isolate the possibility that it may be a driver update related.

Update us with the outcome so we can provide you further assistance.