OK, scrap the Admin suggestions, that was just to test if it was a permissions issue you were experiencing, you normally shouldn’t have to run as Admin.
Your log indicates you have an SSL Connect Error, which could be due to a number of things; date/time incorrect on your system, antivirus scanning encrypted connections, don’t have TLS enabled in your internet options, etc. So that’s probably a place to start investigating.
‘If you know what I mean’ Are you also saying that if you use shortcuts then they don’t work, but if you click on the exe directly everythings fine?
Andrew