Windows 10: PC Freezing/Bluescreaning extremely often

I upgraded my PC to Win11 around a year ago and a couple months after I started to unexpectedly experience crashing and freezing. Shortly it turned into bluescreening where it never got passed 0% progress, where I had to just manually turn off my pc and restart. I only experienced at first the bluescreening ONLY when playing games. The frequency of the bluescreening issues was around once a week randomly while playing games. Slowly the frequency started to ramp up to now where I cant go one day of playing general games for 10min without bluescreening. Yes a year of bluescreening before I pos

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Bluescrean on startup



Every time i start up my pc i get bluescrean with issue code PROCESS1_INITIALIZATION_FAILED

 

PC Freezes

Hello,

To isolate your Windows 10 freezing issue, kindly answer the following questions:

• Aside from this error, are you also getting other error codes or messages?
• Where do you usually experience this freezing issue? Is it during startup?
• Other troubleshooting steps you've tried so far?

Looking forward to your response.

 

Freezing desktop and taskbar icons and freezing applications

Hi

Followed the suggested steps.
Thought it was working ok but it's locked again
Back to showing the same symptoms so sadly, I don't think I'm any further on

Any other suggestions?

Can't help feeling like it's either missing a file or something key is corrupted

Nothing shows up via Seagate, scandisc, virus scans (mcafee), malwarebytes
Still also seems to be an issue in safemode

Wondering where to go next...

Extreme but I'm thinking about formatting and starting again
Never done that before though so any useful links to a step-by-step approach would be useful
Including windows 10

I do not have a Windows 10 disc - only a windows 8 that came with my PC
I installed 10 for free some time ago by following a link when MS were really pushing windows 10

Thanks

Damian