It has been up for 3 days now after following the originally prescribed instructions. Do you recommend I stick with Windows Defender or is there another free anti-malware suite out there that...

With the exception of enabling Widows Defender (which I have disabled in a way that is annoying to reverse) I have done as you have suggested. I will post again if I have further problems (with a new...

My computer has been having regular BSODs that I have tracked to ntoskrnl.exe.

I have run the
sfc /scannow command multiple times and it always comes back clean. I dont remember if I have...