I received a roughly-2009-bought, Windows Vista laptop pre-owned from a close friend roughly over seven or so months ago. It worked wonderfully for the first two or three months, albeit a little bit slow, but otherwise I had no problems.
Now, however, the speed of my laptop has decreased so much, that it is constantly freezing and having me either "stopping scripts", waiting for the window/program to either reload or "fix" itself (which never works), or having to open up a Task Manager and force-quitting, then restarting the program. I can't open up web browser (I use Mozilla Firefox) without a bunch of new windows, tabs, adds, and other such annoyances popping up on-screen, despite my firewalls and popup blockers, without me even CLICKING anything more than half the time!
Also, unfortunately, my Virus Protection software (Norton) expired a few months back, so I can't rid myself and my laptop of these aggravations - at least not easily. And I don't have the money needed to renew my subscription. I've been spend easily the last eight hours, going through my files and folders and programs, Googling the names of anything suspicious or unfamiliar and using some sort of free scanning website to find and remove any threats I can dig up the best I can.
Unfortunately, for several of these files, when I go to delete it, a window pops up, saying I "don't have permission" to do so, and that I need administrative permission to do so. I'm really confused on how to give myself these permissions - I'm the only account on this thing, and therefore the Admin of it! So how can I NOT have administrative power to delete these potentially harmful malwares/adwares, and viruses from my computer?
Sorry for the lengthy "question", but I'd really appreciate some help/tips ASAP! What do I do? What is it I'm doing wrong?
Now, however, the speed of my laptop has decreased so much, that it is constantly freezing and having me either "stopping scripts", waiting for the window/program to either reload or "fix" itself (which never works), or having to open up a Task Manager and force-quitting, then restarting the program. I can't open up web browser (I use Mozilla Firefox) without a bunch of new windows, tabs, adds, and other such annoyances popping up on-screen, despite my firewalls and popup blockers, without me even CLICKING anything more than half the time!
Also, unfortunately, my Virus Protection software (Norton) expired a few months back, so I can't rid myself and my laptop of these aggravations - at least not easily. And I don't have the money needed to renew my subscription. I've been spend easily the last eight hours, going through my files and folders and programs, Googling the names of anything suspicious or unfamiliar and using some sort of free scanning website to find and remove any threats I can dig up the best I can.
Unfortunately, for several of these files, when I go to delete it, a window pops up, saying I "don't have permission" to do so, and that I need administrative permission to do so. I'm really confused on how to give myself these permissions - I'm the only account on this thing, and therefore the Admin of it! So how can I NOT have administrative power to delete these potentially harmful malwares/adwares, and viruses from my computer?
Sorry for the lengthy "question", but I'd really appreciate some help/tips ASAP! What do I do? What is it I'm doing wrong?
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