my PC is being fucking odd. for a long time the display settings have refused to open, even after a Windows 11 refresh (installed but kept local files). I kind of ignored it because it rarely comes up and it's otherwise a very solid PC still in terms of speed and ability to handle heavy software usage for audio work and game dev.
But today it's no longer showing/loading the task bar. If I hover over the taskbar I get the loading circle. If I click on the task bar or hit the windows key, things flash but nothing appears. I cannot open settings (trying to use cmd to launch settings gets me "uhhh what's settings?"). (added the read more to take up less timeline space!)