John,
I racked my brain, and checked all my software, I got a boiler plate response from Sony’s support arm in Australia, he was not sure either, I checked all my activations, they all seemed fine, but some needed updating, since I moved, but overall I was at a completel loss, MOST ESPECIALLY since the earlier ghosts eliminated software conflicts etc.
Then it occured to me, I have a Bluetooth Dongle, that only last night I removed, (which I never do) to insert a client’s external drive, I had it out on the restore of each ghost too, so I thought, would it be possible it is a hardware enumeration process that is missing this hardware?, and lo and behold, it worked, the applications run when that is reinserted!
Wow, my mind is blown, just like Terry Crews here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNbMvlPc_7U
Good for future reference anyway, and know that all other apps, EVEN the 32 bit versions of 10 and 11 worked, without this in.
Sean O’Sullivan.