Windows 10: strange password issues. pls help

I recently cleaned out my hard drives of a lot of what I thought were duplicate windows programs and am now having a couple issues. mainly, i am unable to open any menu from the taskbar and I have to right click to access anything. also, a couple apps like xbox and microsoft store are gone.ESSENTIALLY, I screwed up my computer and thought to refresh my pc.however, I am unable to because that is a password protected process and I do not know the password to my user account. my user account is the admin, and it is also a microsoft account. apparently the passwords to the actual microsoft accou

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pls help with audio and graphics issues - latency issue?


sorry, please also find task manager screenshots. couldnt capture the whole list (there are so many processes running!) so i caught what i could, ordered by cpu and memory usage. thanks!

 

New FF - passwords

Hi:

If that setting is already enabled, then I suggest as the next troubleshooting step might be Mozilla Safe Mode (not to be confused with Windows Safe Mode)):

Troubleshoot Firefox issues using Safe Mode | Firefox Help

• Please report back and let us know the outcome, as it will dictate the next steps.
• Also: please tell us what AV/AM/firewall programs are you running on this system?

Thanks,
MM

 

Password issue

After going through the steps to make a new password, after a week or two, my login credentials are no longer valid. I'm forced to make a new password all over again. It seems to happen if I don't login in a certain period of time. Does our passwords expire???