I have a 2014 Razer Blade laptop with nothing plugged in to it. I have the latest windows updates and graphics card updates.
If I click on the battery icon to try to see battery life (or the sound icon to try to adjust volume) in my taskbar, my laptop instantly freezes permanently. I can still move the mouse. Pressing caps lock still causes the key to light up. I can't do anything else. I have to hard reboot it.
The same thing happens if I right click on the desktop and click "display settings"
It has been like this for about 3 months. Does anybody know a fix? I have already tried disabling all startup services. I have also tried system integrity check. I have 17 GB free on my hard drive.
chkdsk /f
from an elevated command prompt?taskkill /im explorer.exe /f
thenexplorer.exe
from an elevated command prompt? This restarts the Windows Shell, which will, in turn, restart the taskbar.