I have met and almost wore out my welcome with " ih8bills ", he has been a great help.
Nonsense, my man -- stubborn is my middle name

-- it's just that 'puters' can be just a little
more stubborn, sometimes.
We all still learn a little more every day...
nobody knows it all-- no matter what they claim.
Sometimes you win -- sometimes you don't.
The issue we faced probably came down to a few little lines of computer-code... out of milllions of lines in XP.
Unfortunately sometimes it turns out to be simpler to just nuke/reformat/reinstall than to find those lines.
Welcome to PCHF.