Can't get wled working! Help please!

Hi. I’m fairly new to all this but no matter how much effort and time I put into trying to make this work I can’t. I wanted to control my RGB lights using WLED. I did my research on what I needed to buy and how it works, but it hasn’t been as easy as all the videos and tutorials I watched. Recently I bought an ESP32 board from Aliexpress. I tried installing WLED and it did, but I had some problems connecting to my WiFi. In the end it just looks like the board was faulty, because it couldn’t find any WiFi networks and when it did it couldn’t stay connected for more than 30 seconds. The second board I bought wasn’t from Aliexpress, but now it looks like I cant even get to the WiFi part of getting WLED to work. After installing WLED it doesn’t let me do anything else but this.
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When I open LOGS & CONSOLE it shows me this.

Rebooting…
ets Jun 8 2016 00:22:57

rst:0xc (SW_CPU_RESET),boot:0x13 (SPI_FAST_FLASH_BOOT)
configsip: 0, SPIWP:0xee
clk_drv:0x00,q_drv:0x00,d_drv:0x00,cs0_drv:0x00,hd_drv:0x00,wp_drv:0x00
mode:DOUT, clock div:2
load:0x3fff0018,len:4
load:0x3fff001c,len:1044
load:0x40078000,len:10124
load:0x40080400,len:5828
entry 0x400806a8
abort() was called at PC 0x4008391d on core 0

ELF file SHA256: 0000000000000000

Backtrace: 0x40089d80:0x3ffe3be0 0x4008a0dd:0x3ffe3c00 0x4008391d:0x3ffe3c20 0x40079247:0x3ffe3c40 |<-CORRUPTED

This message just keeps repeating and repeating.
After pressing back in the console it sometimes says - Serial port is not ready. Close any other application using it and try again.
I’ve been searching for answers, but haven’t found any that have helped. Is there something wrong with my ports or am I doing something wrong?

Use different method of flashing. Here is link to a flasher WLED-wemos-shield/resources/Firmware/WLED_ ESP_Flasher at master · srg74/WLED-wemos-shield · GitHub and link to a bin files WLED-wemos-shield/resources/Firmware/@MoonModules at master · srg74/WLED-wemos-shield · GitHub

Is there any other way to flash? The flasher keeps automatically getting removed from my laptop by windows protection and I haven’t yet found a way to disable that.

https://install.wled.me/

https://wled-install.github.io/