How to fix Windows system errors

Sometimes serious error warnings pop up on Windows, sometimes a few programs crash or they close suddenly, and other times it’s just the system reboots itself or hangs leaving no way out for poor users.Especially beginners should know all the tricks right away to repair windows yourself, without resorting to the computer technician every time an error occurs. If your PC suddenly stops working as it should, just follow all the advice proposed to eliminate errors from your PC.

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Procedure to eliminate errors from the PC

The procedure to follow to eliminate all common PC errors is easy to follow: if we forget, we can always save this article in our favorites and read it at the right time, perhaps saving it in a bookmark folder synced with a google account so you can also read the bookmark from your phone or from other PCs with Google Chrome installed.

1) Restart the system

The first thing to do after a windows error is to restart the system which on all Microsoft systems often leads to a quick resolution.

Restarting Windows allows you to solve the most trivial problems that occur when the PC stays on for a long time or is not restarted after installing a heavy program: it is always advisable to restart it at the first useful opportunity or as soon as the system advises us to do so.

2) Unlock “frozen” Windows

In the event that Windows freezes and therefore does not seem to react to mouse movements or clicks, if possible, you can use the task manager. With the Task Manager yes you can unlock windows if your pc freezes or if your computer runs slow.

The standard procedure is to find and terminate the process explorer.exe (also called File Explorer on the latest versions of Windows) and reopen it from the same task manager, so as to restart the entire Windows graphical environment.

On this subject, we can read our guide on how to restart Windows Explorer.

3) Remove unwanted programs

Remove unwanted programs it’s a good thing to speed up your system and eliminate errors and windows related to totally useless programs.

In this regard, I recommend the guide for finding and removing useless programs using a program like CCleaner to delete junk files.

4) Fix blue screen errors

Fatal errors with the blue screens they are always caused by incompatible drivers or bad or broken hardware devices.

Sometimes just replacing the RAM memory, other times just unplugging the printer or updating the driver. In general, however, this type of critical error is difficult to fix, as also seen in our guide on how to analyze the Windows blue screen and look for the cause of the error.

5) Run a scandisk

If your computer suddenly shuts down or restarts by mistake, or if the light goes out and things don’t work like they used to, you may need to run lo scandisk to fix disk errors.

The standard procedure involves right-clicking on the disk where Windows is installed (File Explorer -> This PC -> C:), pressing on Property opening the tab Instruments, and clicking on Check it out come on Analyze units to check for any errors in the file system.

6) Fix windows errors from the event log

Fixing Windows errors from the event log may not be easy for beginners but by following the instructions in the guide (click the blue link) you can receive precise information on the cause of the error and carry out a diagnostic.

The solutions can be the removal of useless programs or the deactivation of a particular service. On Windows 11 and Windows 10, we can also use reliability monitoring to find the cause of problems.

7) Boot into safe mode

If Windows had errors when turning on the computer it is better to use the Safe mode to identify system errors and correct them.

Once in safe mode, we can run the scandisk and a virus scan to solve most of the problems related to malware that sneak into the system and cause errors or freezes.

8) Restore Windows system files

Windows can fall victim to errors when some system files are changed or deleted due to a virus or a malfunctioning program.

Per repair damaged system files, we can use the command sfc /scannow to be launched from a Command Prompt with administrator permissions (Start menu -> Command prompt -> Right click -> Run as administrator).

Alternatively, we can repair the damaged system files by starting the DISM command, which we talked about in the guide on how to use DISM to fix windows.

9) Scan the PC from a USB stick

If we are sure that the problem is caused by a virus we can download Boot CD and Rescue disk from the Internet to be saved directly to one USB pen drive.

The USB stick will be connected to the problematic PC: changing the boot order we will start the system from the stick and we will be able to scan the entire disk in search of the malware that causes the error when starting up or while using the PC.

10) System Restore

If after the restart an error screen reappears or we run into meaningless restarts, it is advisable to run a system restore.

Restoring allows the user to go back to a previous state of the system, therefore, any changes made are undone and all files and settings return to the way they were a few days ago. Very often, for one-time errors that suddenly appear, the recovery works and solves every problem.

To start the recovery system with the PC started, press WIN+Rlet’s dig rstrui.exe and we choose a restore point away from the day the problem occurred; if your PC won’t boot or hangs on startup force restart it 3 times (at the point where it hangs) until you open the recovery console from which you can choose the restore point.

11) Total system reset

What if, despite all our advice, the system does not boot or crash all the time? In this case, we strongly advise you to save personal files and proceed with a clean install of Windows.

For the clean install, we can use either the integrated recovery system (quick and fast method) is one USB stick with a copy of Windows to reinstall.

Conclusions

These tips should eliminate any errors from your PC, repairing your Windows system safely and effectively whatever the source of the error (software or hardware). These are the procedures also followed by expert technicians: as already mentioned, save this guide in your favorites and read it again as soon as your PC starts acting up.

We recommend you prevent Windows instability errors and prevent it from going haywire following small prevention rules, to be applied every day.

Still, on Windows errors, we can read the guides on programs to quickly fix computer errors come on how to reset errors on PC by creating a new user.