Hello @adjacentengels and welcome to the community,
If you updated you may wish to verify which version you are running. Bitwarden recently announced ending support for older OS’s such as Windows 7 and 8.1
You can find more details and notice in the Bitwarden Help section release notes.
You can also download the compatible 2023.4.0 desktop release and will need to disable automatic updates as instructed in the Help article.