Windows 10 Exiting any fullscreen application causes windows to hang, then crash.

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Anytime that I exit a full-screen application (typically a video game), all of my monitors freeze, though my mouse still moves (unable to interact with anything) for about a minute or two until it freezes as well.


So far, it seems I am able to avoid my system freezing if I set all of my games to run in windowed mode, but this is not ideal and only a temporary work-around.


For some reason, the instant I exit a full-screen game, both SearchApp.exe and dwm.exe stop responding and crash, according to the Event Viewer.


I'm really at a loss as to why this is happening and what I can do to fix this. This started happening maybe 2-3 weeks ago. My PC has all of the latest Windows updates and GeForce drivers.

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