Replicating? Well I think either I uninstalled everything wrong or downloaded a virus (or both), though I have downloaded mods before from LoversLab, Steam Workshop, and Nexus Mod Manager in the past, but security in files with mods are a gamble if they're not endorsed or thoroughly made/supported so I guess a virus is a possibility. I don't know how in blazes this happened, but I'd REALLY like a solution to this please and thank you very very much.
I tried removed Vortex, and now I permanently have a blank file of Vortex stuck in my Downloads folder that I can neither overwrite with another downloaded Vortex Installer file, nor can I delete. Which when I try to, its a non-stop pop-up loop where I'm basically being denied and there is something blocking me from proceeding so I have to click cancel at every prompted pop-up window. If your account has admin rights Vortex can try to unlock the file for you. Vortex needs access "c:\program files(x86)\steam\steamapps\common\Skyrim\data\tools\GenerateFNIS_for_Users\hkxcmd.exe" but doesn't have permission to. After I did that, it seems like all hell broke lose and I constantly am getting prompted by a pop-up at every deployment attempt stating thus: I keep getting a red flag stating 2 files failed to correctly deploy (check log for details, which I couldn't find where to access this), stating the files are locked by external applications, which I hadn't experienced before until after I decided to remove mods from Vortex and my Skyrim that was proving to being too buggy for my game to handle. Vortex is failing to deploy successfully it states it failed to run FNIS (which is installed) and gives me a report FNIS needs to be installed and placed as a Tool for Vortex, which doesn't help me as I haven't seen or found any instructions of how to do this. I'm writing all of this after having made several complete uninstall and reinstall attempts with Skyrim Scrypt Extender, Skyrim (Steam), and Vortex with a consistent re-occurrence of certain issues: Alright, so I'm having several frustrating issues with Vortex, and part of the frustration I believe is in the fact I haven't touched Skyrim since a year after it had been released and the mod manager is very different (that's not a bad thing) from what I'm familiar with.