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Also, Thank you so much for all your help Neil! I really do appreciate it.

I did not delete any digital certificates. I don't use any active antivirus/malware software. It is Windows 8 Pro with MCE (legitimate activated copy) set to receive and install Windows updates automatically. Something might have been corrupted during these automatic update attempts is my guess. I can dig in eventvwr but I would have to dig through a week's worth and quite frankly, I'm happy with everything now and would rather not. :)

I gave up and decided to do a system restore to a week earlier and now I'm back up and running. It had to be some type of Windows update-related issue. Thank you. UPDATE: After the system restore, I installed all the Microsoft updates and re-installed to the latest beta without any further issues.

I nuked the whole 'c:\ProgramData\Stardock' folder as well as the 'c:\program files (x86)\Stardock' folder after uninstall & reboot.

I don't know if this is relative, but some software DOES store DLLs inside the Windows system and I'm not sure if this is the case with Start8. I had issues getting Catalyst software running on an ATI video card. I had to uninstall the software and drivers from add/remove. Remove the folders in 'Program Files' directly, remove the registry entries, remove the driver files inside the Windows directory, and also remove the DLLs installed into the assembly

The start button does appear. When it press it, I do see it toggle to the darker color. Initially it will bring up the configuration window and afterwards it does nothing but toggle the darker color. The service is running and when restarted, it does the same thing.

I have the full paid version. I have not altered any files in my Windows 8 system or in Start8. This is Windows 8 Pro with MCE by the way.

I had beta 1.13 installed and I'm able to open up the configuration panel but I can't open the start menu whether I choose Windows 7 OR Windows 8. I went ahead and uninstalled it, deleted all Stardock registry entries, removed "Stardock" from ProgramData folder, and re-installed and re-armed with both beta 1.09 version as well as 1.03 normal version. I want to know if there's any other files that are saved in the Windows directory. What other factors should