I tried to connect my PC to wifi and windows just completely broke ffs

I switched to Ethernet yesterday.
Also, define "broke windows"

@Ranchu disabling the proxy connection froze the settings window and disconnected wifi. I re-opened it and it was taking ages to change tabs and no longer had a wifi tab, although all other apps were fine. The taskbar wifi drop-down button was also no longer working, so I thought I should restart the taskbar process, but then it refused to start back up and I had to turn my PC off.

Ofcourse, Windows troubleshooter told me there was nothing wrong with me wifi.

@LavaTheif What the Fuck.

Not unusual behaviour from Windows.

I wouldn't be surprised if Windows was checking updates or doing something similar that broke when you did your thing.

same, bro

just got a new pc

Sounds about right.