I made a series of mistakes. I tried Malwarebytes, but did not like it, so I deleted it using its own uninstaller tool. Later I discovered elements of Malwarebytes were still in a folder called ProgramData. My first mistake was thinking I could/should remove all traces of Malwarebytes since I’m not using that program.
I then ran Revo Uninstaller but Win10 Security said I needed Admin permission to delete this folder.
I thought I, as the user, had admin rights along with two other resources “SYSTEM” and “Administrators”. I found all three names under “AppDataProperties / Security / Group or user names”.
I tried to remove “Administrators” from this list, but Windows Security said I can’t “because this object is inheriting permissions from its parent…(you) must prevent this object from inheriting permissions. Turn off the option for inheriting permissions….”. Needless to say, I am now in deep water because I don’t know what Windows Security means when it talks about inheriting, parent and option! But I press forward….(my second mistake)
I ran this command three times:
(1) “C:\WINDOWS\system32>net user administrator /active:no – The command completed successfully.”
(2) Then I ran the same command but changed “active:no” to “active:yes” – The command completed successfully. To my dismay, this action seems to allow both the “Administrators” and “me as the user” to simultaneously run many of the same process and programs; one in the foreground, and one in the background.
(3) Then I reran the “C:\WINDOWS\system32>net user administrator /active:no – The command completed successfully.” – I though “active:no” would undo everything I did before I started meddling around.
But, Task Manager still 20 or so identical process running simultaneously. Examples include: Notepad, Device Association Framework Provider Host, Host Process for Windows Tasks, NVIDIA Container, Runtime Broker[ four processes running], Sink to receive asychronous callbacks for WMI client application, and many more
My question is this: how do I stop duplicate processes from running simultaneously?
