various problems coming to fruition about the same time

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when in file explorer if I click the search bar it appears to hit right click repeatedly, when pressing the windows key the start tab pops up then immediately closes. When in the settings tab, it flicks between two or three options repeatedly. I haven't been able to find any fix other than restarting though it's temporary.

 

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You might want to try clean booting your system as described here

How to perform a clean boot in Windows

Describes how to use the clean boot process to troubleshoot a problem in Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7, or Windows Vista.

support.microsoft.com

Easily done, easily undone.

Basically you're just disabling all the Startup Items and All non-Microsoft services.

Be sure to check the box to hide Microsoft Services, as you don't want to accidentally disable any of those.



After configuring your machine to Clean Boot, if that seems to provide any relief from the problem you will then have to take some time and determine what the offending program, service / process might be.

Carefully and deliberately one non-Microsoft service at a time or in very small groups re-enable them, rebooting after each change to observe any changes. Then graduate to the Startup items again rebooting after each change.

Understanding that in some cases, a Startup item may have a non-microsoft service associated with it and as a result you may not notice the impact until both the Startup item and the service are re-enabled.