Does Chrome keep making my Windows 11 computer freeze?
Does Chrome keep making my Windows 11 computer freeze?
My Chrome browser acts up and makes my whole PC laggy when it hangs or slows down. It feels weird because my cursor works fine but the system gets slow after right-clicking. I am using Windows 11, the newest Chrome version, and the latest Nvidia drivers. Sometimes there is no fix, even hitting reset. But if I press alt+f4 right when Chrome freezes, everything goes back to normal quickly. The screen turns black for a split second then comes back on. I think it's because of my graphics card (GPU). After reinstalling Chrome, sometimes pressing alt+f4 doesn't help anymore, but I can open task manager and close one Chrome tab while the PC is slow, which stops the lag so I no longer need to hit reset. Before, closing tabs didn't work; now it does for me. I tried turning off hardware acceleration, stopping background apps when Chrome closes, disabling some settings in chrome://flags, but nothing helped. This started happening on Windows 10 back a couple of months ago all of sudden. Now I have Windows 11 through the beta channel. Even though I suspect there is a conflict between my GPU and Chrome, gaming works fine because everything else isn't connected to them right now. PC specs: Ryzen 7 3700x with b450m motherboard, 750W power supply, 16GB RAM, RTX 2070 Super graphics card, and a large SSD. Usually open tabs in Chrome are YouTube, WhatsApp web, and some extensions like Adobe Reader, internet download manager, adblock, Google Translate, Tampermonkey, Acescript, BetterTTV, and Google Docs offline (I disabled all except adblock for now). I can't find any solutions anywhere online just yet.
Try to see if it's a virus problem. Chrome has built-in tools that find bad things and clean them up. They can also stop problems from happening fast. Go to the Settings menu (the three dots). Find "Advanced" and then click on "Reset and clean up". Click on "Find harmful software" in that section. Wait until it's done, then restart both Chrome and your computer. Turn everything back on and check if things are better or worse. Let me know if this helps or if you need any updates. Cheers
Try checking if this problem still happens while using incognito mode. If it doesn't go away, turn off every Chrome extension one at a time, even adblockers too. It might be that your Windows 11 computer isn't working properly. You can check all the fixes in this article to see what works for your system.
Open Resource Monitor and Task Manager at the same time to see how your computer works under load. See what happens when things slow down. Find out which apps are using up space (how much, like a percentage) and what specific part is taking up the most room. You might also try Process Explorer for free from Microsoft. It could show you something running in the background that's causing all these problems. Here is where to find it: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinte...s-explorer