{"id":14647,"date":"2021-12-15T12:33:30","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T12:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgildv5i97.onrocket.site\/answers\/?post_type=question&#038;p=14647"},"modified":"2021-12-15T12:34:06","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T12:34:06","slug":"solved-windows-7-programs-wont-open","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/windows-7\/windows-7-programs-wont-open\/17577.html","title":{"rendered":"Solved Windows 7 &#8211; Programs Won&#8217;t Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have Windows 7 &amp; yesterday I started having trouble opening programs. What I&#8217;ve done so far:<br \/>\n1. Run AVG anti-virus &amp; 1 click repair &#8211; says all issues fixed.<br \/>\n2. Run Driver Restore &#8211; says no issues.<br \/>\n3. Deleted several programs which may have been problematic. MacAfee (which had again sneaked onto my computer!),<br \/>\n4. Separately defragged just for good measure<\/p>\n<p>Made things worse by clicking on the wrong button when I was downloading AVG (I bought it after several unsuccessful attempts to download the free version). After that my browsers started loading on strangely, with www.trovi.com as the default home &amp; several Microsoft Partner pop-ups recurring.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not a pro at all this so &#8211; HELP! Thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":37},"question-category":[42],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-14647","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-windows-7"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/14647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=14647"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=14647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}