Sluggishness & Worse

You appear to have a HP/Compaq brand desktop and appear to have 2 TB and 4 TB external hard drives connected to it.

What's the model name and model number of that desktop?

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Go here, then click the large blue "Download Now @ Bleeping Computer" button to download and save AdwCleaner.exe to your desktop.

Close all open windows first, then double-click AdwCleaner.exe to load its main window.

Click the "Scan" button, then allow the scanning process to finish.
(Note: There may be several seconds delay before the progress bar appears, so be patient.)

Click the "Report" button.

When the log appears, save it.

Return here to your thread, then copy-and-paste the ENTIRE log here.

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You're being helped by Derek in the "Virus & Other Malware Removal" forum, so you don't need to be starting another thread for that computer in the "Windows 7" forum.

I've made him aware that you started a new thread here.

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