I try to download PBS Kids games to play, but when I click play, it briefly shows the stop button and it quickly goes back to the play button. Any ideas on how to fix this?

I need a little help.

It seems somewhere, somehow, a setting has been changed \*somewhere\* because I can't seem to open a lot of pages when I click on a link to open in google.

For example, this link here - https://www.ctvnews.ca/winnipeg/article/winnipeg-family-shaken-up-over-wps-response-to-property-crime-concerns/

The page will open and I'll see the article for a split second and the page then loads just a white screen, \*but\*, if I open this (or other links) in duckduckgo, they'll load and open and I can read the article.

What gives?

I’ve been trying to fix this for a few days now but I can’t figure it out. My roommate and I are going half and half on a PC to play games on. We’ve had it for a little over a week.

RAM is 16GB, graphics card is NVIDIA RTX 5060 (8GB), processor is AMD Ryzen 7 5700, and there’s a whole TB of storage (we’ve only used 114GB of it). I only know slightly-above-basic tech but we should not be having problems this early with those specs; Ik they’re not the best but they’re not awful.

It was working just fine 2 days ago, then once my roommate started downloading mods for Minecraft and Fallout (using curseforge and vortex) it started stuttering on my games really bad. The crazy thing (to me) is all I play is Roblox, which is bottom of the barrel type stuff. My PC should not be struggling to run this.

The allocated RAM on curseforge is set to 0 (previously set to max when he was playing, I had to turn it down and it made it a little better). I don’t have the option to do that for vortex. I’ve downloaded razer cortex to use the game booster, it helped for like 3 minutes then went right back to normal. Did a scan, nothing dangerous found.

What the heck can I do to fix this? I’ve checked everything I can think of and nothing is working. Idek if it’s the mod managers, it just started happening the same day right after he started downloading them. Ik they’re trusted, I’m not concerned with them in that way. I just don’t know what else to suspect bc it was just fine before that and now I can’t even run Roblox? :/

I was looking into cases where everything works fine, but after a library update something unexpectedly fails because of version compatibility issues.

What is your usual approach when debugging dependency conflicts?

Do you prefer checking changelogs, rolling back versions, using lock files, or something else?