Uninstalled McAfee-the-hog which immediately improved life. Have run a registry cleaner and Malwarebytes as a precaution; both come up fine (but am going to run them again after I post this query). Have plenty of room for installation.
Installation appears to go fine and then at the end it says it failed. The folder is created but is empty. My first guess is the exe did not download properly, second guess is McAfee has not yet left the building. Any advice?
Log is attached as text file.
Many thanks ahead of time and I confess I wonder about y’all with that most interesting Animal Farm search example…