Didn't have a chance to post back for over a day. I did a cleaninstall yesterday and am still finishing it up. Windows itself had 2 issues that I couldn't fix. A: merge for .reg files disappeared and sfc/ scannow kept failing to work after it got to 15 %. This install I'm doing differently and installing the software one by one and configuring it first, before moving to the next. My 4 games pretty much tied up last night.