molitar said:
Cortana will not launch and a crap load of application errors in my event viewer.
That's possibly a symptom of a faulty SSD. (unless you have a platter drive)

IIRC, I saw something like that with my PNY CS900 SSD. Then I saw the SMART looking abnormal.
(a bunch of errors in the event log, even if not "disk" or directly related to SATA)