my asus will boot up but will not let me open any programs. I can open the control panel but when I try to uninstall a program

[Nicki8384]

My Asus laptop will boot up, but I cannot open any programs except my control panel. When I try to uninstall a program it will not do anything. It's probably about 3-4 years old and running windows 7

 

[Tradesman1]

Sounds like might have virus or malware - try booting into Safe mode and if all is OK - even if not, run a virus scan and run MalwareBytes