Sorry in my frustration I forgot to mention that when I reinstalled Avast, the firewall setting told me I needed to reboot for all the funtions to work properly, and ‘would you like to reboot now’. I clicked yes and it crashed my computer. Windows startup Repair couldn’t fix it but a System restore did. Now I notice the Windows action Center is telling me to turn on my Avast antivirus. Avast claims that it IS on. …