I have a Dell XPS 15 running Windows 7 SP1. About a week or two ago, the laptop started taking a lot of time to go from login screen to home sceen. It would show a black screen with a movable cursor meanwhile before loading the desktop. I could fasten the process but restarting explorer.exe from the task manager. But now restarting explorer.exe doesn't solve the problem and even task manager gets unresponsive. When I could start it by restarting explorer.exe, many applications like my antivirus, audio manager, etc would not start like they're supposed to. When I boot it in safe mode, I can login just fine. The problem remains when I try to boot it normally. Running diagnostics gives error in hard drive DST Short test (ERROR CODE: 0146) Please help!
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