Solved Pinned Taskbar Programs not Opening or Disappearing?

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Brandon Byrnes

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I have recently been having some problems with my PC. The two main issues is if I leave my system on and walk away for a while then come back and try to open any program via desktop shortcuts or pinned programs on Taskbar, they will not open. i just get a hourglass waiting icon. When this happens I can't even open the start menu to restart the computer, I have to just do a hard restart. Today when I turned on my computer it went to the desktop but all of my desktop shortcuts were gone and nothing was pinned to the takbar, and again I couldn't open the start menu. I did a hard restart and it restarted fine. I ran sfc/scannow and it said there were errors and Windows repaired them. I have included the log file attached to this post (I had to shorten it becuase the original file was too big to uplaod so I just included the errors and the fixes) , can someone take a look at it and tell me what was wrong that Windows fixed, I would really appreciate it. I am running Windows 10 Pro 64, updated to the latest 2004 update.
The 3rd problem i am having is while watching a video on YouTube or via a media player sometimes the video sound will go all garbled almost like I'm watching a DVD that has a scratch in it. It only happens for a second but it has been happening for the last couple days. My graphics card is fairly new, a Gigabyte RTX 2070 Super that I purchased about 3-4 months ago, and my NVIDIA Drivers are all up to date, along with all other drivers and my BIOs.
 

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Sorry I forgot to update, it's not needed anymore. I reinstalled Windows, and downgraded from the May 2004 update to the 1909 update. Since doing that I thankfully haven't had any issues, no bsods, no weird errors, no programs acting strange. For the first time in about 4 months my computer seems to be totally stable. I think the reason I was having a problem is because I had installed Windows from a backup from a different hard drive. I could tell this was causing problems becuase some programs weren't opening and Windows was saying they weren't installed but then when I would go to install them it said there was already a folder for that program in Program folder. So i reinstalled with a fresh copy, not a backup and now everything is working great. Maybe in a few months when Microsoft has all the bugs worked out of the May 2004 update i'll go ahead and install that, but until then I'm just going to stay on the 1909 update since it's working fine. Thanks for the help you can mark this solved. I will go ahead and install that bsodcollection app though incase I need it in the future.
 
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