Desktop taskbar and many other functions stop working randomly

[Windows 11]

Ever since my laptop updated itself, I've been having problems with the entire taskbar not working, any new chrome tabs or any applications that need to load getting stuck while loading, the WIFI not working, and any new devices plugged into the computer not being detected. On top of this, opening task manager whenever this glitch occurs completely freezes my computer screen, but I know that my computer is still working as I can hear people on call when the screen is frozen. I checked the computer logs and found no error logs relating to this issue, and running DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image

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