I wrote earlier about the installation problem and am now happy to say I solved it. It seems all the protective software on my computer was either blocking part of the exe file coming in or else not recognizing it when I tried to run it from my downloads folder. So here's what I did:
1. Uninstalled System Mechanic completely just in case it was messing with it (but I still had the “raw materials” of it in my downloads folder).
2. Disabled all the protection in McAfee. At this point I still could not change the Windows settings, so I presume that once McAfee was there then Windows just turned over all the protection to McAfee, so it didn’t matter what I tried to tell Windows to do.
3. Downloaded once again the pgm from UFile (the .exe file already in the downloads folder had obviously got buggered up by all the virus protection stuff or else part of it never made it through).
4. Ran the .exe file and IT WORKED!
5. Reinstalled System Mechanic
7. Turned back ON the protective measures in McAfee
8. Poured myself a drink to celebrate.
The puzzling thing is that I never had to do this in all the years as far back as 2016, on the SAME COMPUTER.
