WRUE951, thanks I ran it in admin mode and voila it worked. All installed and running like a champ. Something so easy to overlook, and it just takes a comment or a suggestion from somebody else to try, and the rest is history.
Running Windows 11. For some reason now I'm wondering if the 11 upgrade did emulate in the registry. I did get putty installed, I'll figure it out, but thank you all for your comments and suggestions.
Yeah when I run the executable zip file it says invalid signature, which I take means the file is not some how recognized in the Windows platform. Been a few years since I've work with computers. Maybe I'm overlooking something?