I have questions about my new computer

[SmartAleq]

AdBlock Plus has gone to the dark side and has agreements to allow SOME ads through--go with uBlock Origin, it's much closer to the real original thing and allows nothing.

I've never used Avast, I use AVG and it's been quite good at keeping things clean. Wants you to buy stuff but that's easily avoided, stick with the free version. Keeps putting a shortcut on the desktop but that's easily deleted.

If you're going to use the computer to play media files, K-Lite Codec pack Standard gives you Media Player Classic and the ability to play basically every type of video file that exists, and it's free.

If you want to play music, I suggest Foobar 2000, it's free and open source and it's a very low resource music player.

If you don't like the annoying start "menu" that Win10 defaults to, which is those annoying alphabetical icon tiles, there's a fix for that--OpenShell, which lets you tweak the heck out of the Win10 interface but that's a little bit more advanced, if you're interested let me know and I'll walk you through it. I infinitely prefer the classic Start menu with the words and better ability to pin what you want to it and also it allows a one step process to get to the Control Panel, which Win10 doesn't want you to use because it thinks you are stupid and should only be given access to the Settings, which has its nuts cut off. I hate Settings, it's dumb.