Thanks for the responses everyone. I was thinking of uninstalling Avast, as that is one thing that shows up in multiple instances. Has anyone ever seen that, 100% CPU, column in red?

That's good...

I have several issues going on and wanted to see if anyone has an idea of what could be going on. I'm technically unsavvy so unsure if I have malware, or when things are just normal, etc. I had a...

Thanks for the welcome! Shortly after posting that, I switched to a one time boot of UEFI mode w/ secure boot enabled (apparently it was disabled) and for some reason that appears to have fixed the...

Every time my system starts, it goes to a black screen that says something like "no OS detected; press any key to continue." When I do that, it keeps going back to the same screen. The only solution...