I appreciate the trouble shooting suggestions. One of the issues was the install wiped the old files and there were no files to remove. It somehow halted or froze during installation because I have 4 Laptops and 4 Towers on a network and this installed fine on 3 other laptops so I figured I would copy over the missing files on my network. But oddly it said I didn't have permissions or the file was open. Well I know I had permission and the key word "open" here told me the PC is still trying to install even though it wasn't in my task manager to force close. So I rebooted, updated windows, renamed the old folder and installed a fresh install and we are back. No clue why it halted but solved here. Thanks for the reply.
Edit: Oh Hi DanP! That could have been the issue. Thanks hope all is well with you and thanks again for all you do m8.