In reply to Nocturne: [can you humour me and install .net 7 as well?]
Will do after the reinstalls of the first two and let you know and then open a ticket if no progress. Thanks <@171469009793843201> - I just opened a ticket. I reinstalled everything including 7.* Net FW (including 8.* and C both x64 versions) and same issue. Prompt DLs everything fine, no issues with either redist or framework, everything windows def/firewall disabled, everything run as admin. Launcher.exe immediately closes (tried deleting the updater.ini file on 2nd attempt) no luck - opened a ticket. Thanks!