I don't see PC details so I'll ask for that now. Be sure your back copies are current as we start checking into what it could be. So for now, tell the forum the following things.
1. Make, model, age of the PC.
2. If you do your regular maintenance or have it done (canned air to vents, how often?)
3. And to give a peek under the hood, a Web Speccy report.
How is at https://www.piriform.com/docs/speccy/using-speccy/publishing-a-speccy-profile-to-the-web
Last Thursday I started experience several problems on my computer.
1) Microsoft Word starting taking an extremely long time to open. Then, when it was opened, when I tried to click on a document, it would freeze up and not respond. (And I'd get that little hourglass thing.)
After not successfully opening, the computer would reboot itself on it's own.
Then, both Spotify and Windows Media Player would crash after playing music for 5-10 minutes.
I'm a writer who works at home, and not being able to use Microsoft Word is obviously very problematic. It should be noted that later in the day, I was able to use Word just fine, but I'd rather not have to through several hours of attempting to get it open (and go through several reboots) in order to do my work.
Any help anybody can give me would be greatly appreciated. Thank you! ![]()

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