Yes, they are.

Yes, the sound quality suddenly became god-awful, but I just fixed it and everything is better.

Yes, the scan helped somehow.

Goddamn it I just tried it and it worked; thank you so much.

I got a message saying no integrity violation; any ideas as to what it is or where I should look?

I've been using Windows 10 for ~5 weeks, and only recently have these problems arose. The file explorer and task manager both have the same issue; they both open in the program tab (Whatever the...