I think I'm throwing in the towel and just going to set up a dual boot with Windows 7 64 bit to use for my games. So I'll have the Windows 10 partition just like they set up for work and I'll install a second partition with Windows 7 that I can use for playing. I have way to many days away from home to be without some form of entertainment and this whole system is getting on my nerves. I hope this will just bypass the whole problem and leave me somewhere I know how to work things out with.

Watch out for drivers issues with the newer computers... some of them were purpose-built to "kill" Win7's use. If there's room in the box, it'd be nice to be able to throw a 2nd hard drive in there for the other OS, but I haven't seen a laptop with a 2nd hard drive in a while...

Finally figured out what was making the .exe disappear. For some strange reason my virus scanner was identifying it as a virus. Anyone know anything about chance? I'm trying to figure out how to get an exclusion made.

There's usually a way to temporarily turn it off, or like you say, allow an exception... which one do you have? Are you sure that's the issue? Is it in the AV's log file?

Hi Guys
.exe applications can be an irritating problem with some anti virus programs as they can look at it in different ways.
The SH3 Patch_HSIE-V16B1 comes up as virus with AVG and is blocked.
I have also had the SH5 .exe being blocked.
I have never had a problem though with SH4.

It is easy to set up exceptions in your anti virus software.
There is usually an icon on the task bar or hidden behind the ^ where you can open your anti virus program.
Changes need to be made to both the Computer side and Firewall.
Peter

Yeah, I'm afraid though, after poking and prodding around, that my paranoid IT made that part of my virus scanning program inaccessible. You wouldn't happen to know how to make a UEFI bootable install for windows 7 would you?