Windows 10 PC locking up at random times

I didn't read through the whole post, I just read the original post and a few below it, yet I posted this on another thread that I hope may also apply here. Just read through it and see if this applies to you or not. I hope it does:

I use Google Chrome as my internet browser and it is the one that causes the freezes. So when the freeze occurs, I can move the mouse around, yet if I press the Start button or on the Taskbar or anything that's open on the screen, the computer would respond to the click VERY SLOWLY. For example, when the freeze happens, I press the Start button. 30 seconds later, the Start menu pops up.

This is what I do to fix it: Press Ctrl+Shift+Esc to go to the Task Manager. Click on Details tab. End all the chrome.exe tasks. Then I end explorer.exe task. Then after that, click File > Run new task. Type explorer and press OK. Then the computer will go back to normal. Re-open Google Chrome and everything is functioning again. Only down side is that all File Explorer windows that I had open will no longer be open, I'd have to re-open them if I need to or whatever. Stupid bug, and I hope it gets fixed.

I'm confused.

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Try my suggestion from above the next time your computer locks up. I read through this thread and what you experience seems very similar to my freeze issues.

Aha I see. Then the most likely cause could definitely be Google Chrome. I experience the same thing (except that I can actually move the mouse and use the keyboard). Use your Firefox for a week or so, and see if it still happens. If no hanging happens, then Google Chrome is most likely the one causing this. It would be very difficult to find a solution to fix this, since Google Chrome is updated automatically, so this bug could auto re-load itself with some corrupt settings in Google Chrome. But who knows.