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Well, I completed the re-install of the Windows 8.1 update and it’s all good. Hum…so weird, but it works.

Thanks for the info. Last night I did my VMWare ubuntu install so I could get some work done. This morning based on your success I uninstalled the windows updates and while that fixed the problems–yeah–wp can work–I am now reinstalling the updates as you did and I hope that will result in the same positive outcome you had. Sometimes I just hate Microsoft.

I don’t feel so alone now, Rauspitz, but I am now looking at whether this machine can take VMWare player and Ubuntu so I can get some work done whilst some bright person figures out this 8.1 thing. I don’t wish to go to 10 on this computer either.. ??