Although sometimes *chrome* itself can freeze but I still have video pre-loaded, in which case I cannot interact with Chrome but the video still plays. This is true until it has to load/buffer something new, then it freezes. I'm much more likely to freeze during any disk-intensive activity such as a steam game download, a large read/write operation, etc.ДЄlso I believe the behavior of how some things are interactable until they are frozen can be explained as such If I were to have a chrome tab open of a video on YouTube and I froze again, then the video continues playing and I can still interact with the player controls. This seems obvious to me based on what I've observed and tried with the issue for the past months. My thoughts are that this is disk-related. One of the first things I tested is if it happens when chrome is not running, and it very rarely happens in that case, but it has actually happened once or twice without chrome running. This happens when I am using Chrome almost every time, and everytime it is frozen, chrome says 'Waiting for cache.' in the bottom-left. During this time, I can still move the cursor and interact with some windows/applications, though interacting with anything too much causes it to freeze completely. Essentially, my computer will soft-freeze for a varying amount of time ranging from 1-5 minutes. I come here out of desperation for the issue I have been battling for the past 5-6 months.

Windows 10 waiting for cache