Can no longer run Unity

I was having an issue earlier where I was not able to resize my windows in Unity, because it would cause my computer to crash. For some reason I was able to move some stuff around, and just when it was about to be to my liking, all the windows jumped out of the main unity window and I could not snap them back in, so it was like I had 4 separate windows and one window with all the file menu stuff. So, I figured it wouldn’t hurt anything to hit the “return to factory settings” button on the viewport menu. Sure enough it crashed, but now everytime I try to load up Unity, it reloads the factory settings for the windows then just crashes my computer.

Apparantly the windows weren’t the only thing crashing my computer, It also crashed when I hit the “turn off skyboxes, ect.” button on the scene menu, occasionally when I was dragging an object, and of course resetting the windows to factory settings (which this is the only time it keeps resetting to factory settings, when I’ve hit it in the past sometimes it would work, sometimes it would crash, but it would always go back to where it was before I hit that button.)

I’ve tried uninstalling Unity and Re-Installing Unity, but I’m lost as far as what else I could do. Is there a file that has all the window information either in the unity folders, somewhere on a specific location on the harddrive or in the registry? Other than this, Unity has been running perfectly fine, its rarely ever slow, and It’s able to run everything else with no problems. This just baffles me.

I would assume that its actually your windows installation, driver installation, security installation or a hardware part causing the problem, because if it crashes on basically anything then its definitely something outside of unity shooting at it or any application potentially.

but thats the thing, it’s not basically anything, its just occasionally on window resizing, pressing that disabler button and on the rare occassion moving an object. I can do everything else just fine, size and resize an object, change scripts and settings, go into and out of game mode, import assets, load scenes and projects, move the camera all over the place, go into and out of wireframe mode, you name it. It may just be a hardware problem or whatever, but if its something else I’d like to know. Especially if all I need to get it up and running again is stop the window from trying to resize itself on startup.

do you have something like window blinds installed that messes with the rendering of windows?

I’m not to sure. Is there a way to tell if a program messes with windows rendering? I do have an ATI driver installed that for some reason has a tray icon and I believe that it also has some type of section that dabbles with rendering 3D, I’ll see if there is some way to disable it and try and see if it works after that. Thanks a bunch.