Another update. wasn't happy with Bitdefender. It was causing issues as well. Was causing a Mouse " sticking " problem. Most annoying.

On a hunch I went back to Avira and downloaded a fresh version of the Avira Installer. This program had a slightly different File size than before. .

Glory Be!! It fixed all the issues. My programs all open as they should now and my System is much faster than what it had been with the previous version of Avira or Bitdefender.

This version of Avira is: 1.1.79.5

I had sent Avira a rather pointed Feedback that they had ruined the program. Maybe they found something???