When I boot up my fathers laptop (Compaq Presario R3000, I believe) He has no internet connection or windows firewall active. He uses Avast as his antivirus protection I believe. After almost an hour trying to enable either internet or windows firewall (With Network connections window freezing, and windows firewall saying it could not be enabled due to an unidentified problem.), The firewall will kick on, and internet will appear and work fine. How can I fix this?1 person needs an answerI do too

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