K526,
thanks, been buried a bit, but surfaced, cleaned up my win10 install (some bad spots on the ssd discovered by chkdsk and corrected), got everything square on updt to 22H2. downloaded and installed the C++ distributable for x86 & x64.
then
thought about 3 different posting and did everything suggested (posted again based on all that last nite - 11/12/2022). still dead in the water. added in the log files, maybe someone can make some sense on those. i read the log files but nothing registers since this is the first time i looked at them.
thanks though for your response, much appreciated.
ron
