Windows 10: Windows keep booting to a black screen with command prompt, help!

I can access the control panel and writing explorer.exe on the console fixes it for that session. I've tried most stuff I've seen online like checking if in Winlogon the Shell registry is "explorer.exe" or booting the computer in safe mode and doing a virus check, ect...

I'm open to suggestions to what I can do and if worst case scenario I have to reset windows to factory settings, what will it delete? Online it says programs but I just want to make sure that everything I have on my desktop and on other drives are safe.

EDIT: Forgot to say that this happened after I restarted my computer because every app kept crashing due to low memory, which is strange since I have 16GB and didn't have a lot of stuff open.

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