All black boxes

How do I clear all black boxes that appear instead of text, tables, graphs, graphics, or labels?

I had quite a scare. I went to that DriverMax site, download, signed up, and did a scan of drivers. It indicated for the Mobile Intel Express chipset family that there was a newer driver with a 2011 date. When it asked if I wanted to make a backup point I answered no because I had already done so previously and went ahead with the download update. It then said I had to restart my computer for the update to take effect. I did that but when I started my laptop PC up again it got to the Windows screen with the three vertical bars running left to right for about 5 s and then the screen went BLACK. I had to hold down the on/off switch for it to turn off and tried a couple more times to turn it on with the same result.
The only way I got back on was when the PC got to the screen about the system that was going to run it stated to push F8 for troubleshooting. So I pushed F8 and choose the line that said restart computer with last known good logon. I checked the driver and the date is the old date of 2005-10-14. I don't know what went on but it was not good for me.
The other thing I didn't like was it loaded something called AVG Secure Search, which I didn't want but there was no way to uncheck the radial button. Now when I click on the Internet icon for Google Chrome it goes to this AVG Secure Search.
What happened? I hope I can login normally from now on and what should I try next?

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