Thanks for your response. I recall doing something like that with Sound Forge when I couldn’t get it to open but I had forgotten the keyboard commands.
I did get it to work however by paying close attention of what plugins Vegas was initializing upon start-up (there at the bottom of the Vegas startup screen) when it was scanning so I was able to see what .dlls it was stuck on. I moved them temporarily outside of the VST folder and got it to open.
Once opened I created a new folder called “VST Plugins VEGAS” and set the VST effects path in Vegas preferences pointing to that since I don’t really need Native Instruments plugins in Vegas.
But thanks for the info on that regarding the “Hold CTRL + SHIFT then click on VEGAS”
I’ll refer to this this if I run into it again. :–)