Annoyingly this is a new machine (maybe the root cause of my issues) with a fresh windows and nice fast SSD !!! I use LINUX at work but all my home machines are windows. Yet to make the change - but I guess it’s coming. The latest windows version is very buggy (doesn’t remember passwords anymore …).
Just trying to get a new user and discovered that the USER variable isn’t being written properly - so working on that. Hopefully I’ll be able to report that the issue I have is fixed AND why !!