Time for a new free virus scanner - advice?

[Buster's Uncle]

I hit the windows icon in the bottom left corner and started typing...

Now, I also need to figure out how to get a Gigaware external drive case open - I only just spotted the two screws; that should do it...

[Buster's Uncle]

I've just bothered to download the latest version of GIMP, 'cause I've got a few new kitten pics to process and that can't wait; also, the giant doll in the woodshed for Uno...

[DrazharLn]

I hit the windows icon in the bottom left corner and started typing...

Then right click on the windows icon and go to control panel or just look for the win10 settings program.

[Buster's Uncle]

Okydoke.

...Given the timing, I have a genuine suspicion that when I downloaded W10 on the 27th, Microsoft deliberately windows-crufted my old machine worse to force me to this.  I imagine that's a felony and they were very careful to leave no memos and relayed instructions face-to-face "You say this needed security update will tend to have an unfortunate impact the users' computers performance?  Wellll - security is VERY important, and I'm sure the performance hit is trivial and they'll manage..."

[Buster's Uncle]

I THINK I'm in the right place, but I find no way thus far to undo the 'password protected'...

[DrazharLn]

I misremembered. Just run "netplwiz".

win+r > netplwiz

[Buster's Uncle]

Okay!  I unchecked 'Users must have a password to use this computer' and that should be that.  Thanks.

[Buster's Uncle]

Embedded videos are not displaying for me here and WPC - oddly, they're fine at 'Poly and CFC.  I've looked around the View and Tools menus in IE and found no helpful setting yet...

[DrazharLn]

Have you installed flash?

[Buster's Uncle]

You have to install that turkey?  I thought that was one of those things so pandemic you get it automatically the first time you go online, sorta like porn and disgust.

Googling...

[Buster's Uncle]

Man - I don't know how you're supposed to get at the hard drive in my old machine without cutting up the tower...

[Buster's Uncle]

Flash Player is integrated with Internet Explorer in Windows 10.
You do not need to install Flash Player.

https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/flash-player-issues-windows-10-ie.html

It's enabled, too...

[DrazharLn]

Then possibly you don't have the codecs. The klite pack is legit.

For the HDD, if you don't have much to transfer just stick it on a USB drive or something. If you have a lot, just unplug and unscrew stuff until you get to it.

Maybe search for a teardown of your chassis name here.

[Buster's Uncle]

I finally found how the cage it's mounted in slides out, and I expect I've got it, now...

There's a lot to transfer, though; I had a major portion of the machine before that's hard drive cloned -and thus. all my SMACX art files for nearly eight years- and I need it for an external to transfer in any reasonable time...

Where do I look for these codecs?  Search term?

[Buster's Uncle]

...I finally got the drive out - and the casing for the two-machines-ago drive is for the other kind of HD than the one I have on hand wanting to mount.

-There's just no way there's a place in the new machine -the tower's very small- and free plugs to install it internally, is there?

That's not theoretically outside my technical/mechanical competence -I transferred the floppy drive from three machines ago to the one two machines ago and it did work fine and all- but I'd really be more comfortable not cracking the case and trying, suspecting as I do that there's no place and plugs - and if I have to buy parts anyway, I'll go with the simple/easy external case...