oh noooOOOooOoooooo, i just found out my flavour of windows has a “Forced .NET Framework 4.0/4.5/4.6/4.7/4.8”. i went to regedit and enabled 3.5 and now other crap doesnt work either. booooooooooooo. i love this version of windows (Ghost Spectre’s) but it looks like it might be time for a change. I literally dont have a single AV on here right now. not even defender. my windows is pretty barebones. thank so much for helping. my turn to suss this out now