Windows 10: How do I detect if a hacker is accessing the computer with windows 10 system?

My computer has been acting a bit strange. It's difficult to describe what is happening. Little glitches, pauses, system lagging, and freezing up when I am not online. Not long ago I found out there were multiple people watching my computer. How can I be sure that is not still happening? I run my antivirus on a regular basis. It always says nothing is wrong. I am older adult. Can someone tell me what I need to do to be sure everything is alright?Thank you for helping. God bless.

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Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.

 

No computer detection on wired network

I have a household network that is hard-wired; the wireless is only for hand-held devices. I've been experiencing an issue lately where my wired desktop stopped detecting or being detected by the other computer and drive on the wired network but is detecting
and being detected by a SURFACE on the wireless network.

My desktop computer- Does not detect the other computer or the network drive (wired) but detects the Surface on the wireless network. Surface asks for credentials despite private network access settings. Allows access after sign in.

The other computer- Does not detect my desktop computer. Detects and accesses the network drive (wired). Detects and accesses the Surface on the wireless network. The Surface does not ask for credentials for access to folders.

The Surface- Only detects itself. No other computers in the network.

It would appear that my desktop computer has experienced network bugs since the zillions of updates the last couple of months. The network was well-connected when I first installed the network drive. Here are some notes of what I've been trying in order
to avoid duplication of suggestions and replies.

• I have set/reset the router.
• I have tried uninstalling the recent updates with no change in the situation. After those experiments, I upgraded to Win10 Version 2004 to bring the system back up to date.
• I have already done the SMB on/off changes and some of the service.msc adjustments with no luck. There may be more from what I've been seeing but there is also no consistency so I'll wait to hear what y'all have to say.
• All of the devices have been set in "network and sharing" to allow detection and sharing on the network and password protection is disabled.
• The printers are wired as well and are detected and used by all computers in the house.
• It is interesting to me that the devices are visible under Network>Media Devices, but the related computers aren't listed under Network>Computer.

My ideas in order of preference:

1. Pray you all to have a solution that involves Windows configurations settings only.
2. Find software to override Windows 10 Networking and manage my home network (4 Desktops, 2 printers, and a NAS).
3. Learn how to assign the computers with hard IP addresses and force detection. (But that won't help my NAS.)
4. Run a repair of Windows 10.
5. Clean install Windows 10.

 

One computer cannot access other network computers.


So I've tried every troubleshooting step I know:

• Double checked that Net Bios was enabled
• Ran a bunch of network commands:
  • flushed DNS
  • registered dns
  • pinged and located the named computers successfully
• Reset my router to factory settings

Nothing works when I try to access via explorer. I'm still baffled by the fact that every other computer can access each other AND access this computer. It's just the outgoing connection from this machine that doesn't work.

Any thoughts?