Firewall details acknowledged
No worries about the scheduled updates we will get to them in due course.
Fair bit of work for you to do now so please take your time with it, complete all steps before posting back unless you have a problem or a question, going offline shortly btw;
The next suggestion is to tidy up the data on your HDD, please follow the directions provided below starting with Autoruns
1: Extract the Autoruns Zip file contents to a folder.
2: Double-click the "Autoruns.exe".
3: Click on the Filter out Microsoft & Windows results.
4: Go to File then to Export As or Save in some versions.
5: Save AutoRuns.txt file to known location like your Desktop.
6: Attach it to your next reply.
Autoruns Tutorial
2nd: Download and run TFC the computer should automatically re-boot on completion but if not do it manually.
3rd: Defrag your HDD with Auslogic (free) please note that I am not suggesting that you use any other product or service at the link.
To speed up your boot times find any unnecessary programs linked to start up "how to" below;
Go to Start, type MSCONFIG into the search field/box and then press Enter.
Click on the start-up Tab.
Look at each line that has a check in the box, these are start-up items, with the exception of Windows programs and your AV software uncheck the ones you do not want to run at start-up.