graydog7

Tried many things. Your link above mainly relates to XP as most of the steps don't apply to Vista64 and those that do have no effect.

I'm getting this error now:

"application failed to initialize: 0x800106ba. The RPC server is unavailable."

What a Crock! I've wasted the whole day trying to resolve this issue that seems to be the result of an Automatic Update!

All I can do now is disable Defender in MSCONFIG and wait.....ZZZZzzzzzzz