You won't have any issues if you just stick to a site you can actually trust. I picked mine up from a vendor recommended by some guy over on a gaming forum—those guys are always grabbing keys for legit titles and they never seem to run into trouble https://www.kinguin.net. It barely even costs $67 about 28 bucks.
Back in the day, Microsoft used to let you upgrade from Windows 7 or 8 to Windows 10 for free... but that window has pretty much slammed shut. Now, if you haven't activated it with some kind of workaround, the OS will eventually start nagging you with those "Windows isn't activated" pop-ups. It’ll turn your desktop background black and throw a few other little annoyances your way, though you can still technically use the system without much trouble. If you don't mind shelling out some cash, you can usually grab a key from one of those gaming sites—they mostly just flip OEM keys, which are legit, so you should be fine...
The thing is, your TV just has a lower resolution, so everything gets squished together because there isn't enough screen real estate for the icons to breathe. The real headache here is that you're trying to run both displays on one single desktop—it’s a mess. You should set them up as extended displays instead... you know, so they act like two separate spaces. Like, keep your workstation stuff on the left monitor and let the TV handle the right side. That way, you only move the mouse over to the TV when you actually need to... just nudge it toward the right edge of the main screen. Honestly, just play around with the settings until it feels right to you. 😉 At least nothing is actually broken, so no harm done...
First thing you should try is just nuking Google Chrome and reinstalling it from scratch—if some files got corrupted along the way, a fresh install usually cleans up those broken packages
An SSD isn't going to fix your problems if the system is still stuttering—it’ll just move data around faster, which doesn't really solve the underlying lag...
You also really ought to take a look at how many extensions you’ve got hanging around—they can constantly be running useless processes in the background without you even realizing it... Just hit those three little dots in the top right corner, go to tools, then extensions, and just prune away anything you don't actually need.
Look, it really depends on a whole bunch of different factors... Maybe you’ve just got one of those TV series where the AirPlay implementation is total garbage—if you take it in for service and they swap out the motherboard under warranty, you might just end up right back where you started with the exact same headache. I went through something pretty similar ages ago with the GPS on my old Nexus... had the motherboard swapped three separate times and the damn thing still wouldn't track properly. I didn't see a real fix until I moved on to a different brand entirely.
We could always try hunting down a screen and glass assembly on eBay to see what the total comes to... then we can decide if it actually makes sense to order it and pay some local repair shop to swap it out for you $17 or $33 honestly, it just depends on how much they’re quoting you for the fix. But let's be real—if this thing is an older model from a budget brand, you're probably better off just biting the bullet and buying a new one.
If the drive itself is physically trashed, you'll probably see it right at startup—it just won't boot. In those cases, I think the system ends up kicking you straight into the BIOS settings... though in my setup, it forces me into the UEFI menu since that’s the newer tech 😉
Anyway, you should run some kind of diagnostic tool—maybe HDD Tune or CrystalDiskInfo—just to see what kind of error it's throwing and how many bad sectors we're actually dealing with. But honestly? It might not even be a hardware issue.
Man, AT&T tried that same cheap hardware trick on me twice—gave me some budget setup that was nothing but headaches. The technician back then just brushed it off, saying they weren't even expensive and we should just try them out first... total nonsense. Eventually, I insisted and they swapped it out for some newer Siemens routers, and honestly, I haven't had a single issue since. Just give AT&T a call and tell them you need a different router because yours keeps freezing up on you. Tell the tech straight up that you want the Siemens model instead.
Unfortunately, there isn't one... you just have to hunt down specific sites that handle certain platforms. For instance, when I'm on my phone, I usually just stick to music apps like YouTube, though on mobile it kind of feels more like listening to the radio. I actually stumbled upon a site once that could pull content directly from there.
If you're really looking to scrape content from those specific sites, it’s not exactly impossible—just a headache. You’d basically need to find someone who actually knows their way around web architecture to dig out the direct video links. If they manage to crack that, someone could theoretically build an app to automate the whole downloading process... assuming enough people actually want to use it.
Honestly, your best bet is probably just a clean reinstall or maybe a system repair. Something deep inside the OS has gone sideways—and you aren't going to find a quick fix for it because Microsoft is the only one who actually knows how their own code works... and they aren't exactly handing out the keys to the kingdom. Since Windows is such a closed ecosystem, you're basically stuck choosing between repairing it or starting over. If this were Linux, though? You could just head straight to the repositories and easily swap out the window manager package or the entire GUI without all this headache.