I require assistance freshly installing windower.

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3/12/2017 1:32:57 PM
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System.TimeoutException: The operation has timed out.
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   at #=qmhNvAyztrFon0QQMItVoEw==.#=qav9FVComJWu2k_c7i_yB0A==()
   at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart_Context(Object state)
   at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.RunInternal(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state, Boolean preserveSyncCtx)
   at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state, Boolean preserveSyncCtx)
   at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)
   at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart()
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Above is the crash log that Windower has spat out at me, even when I attempted to cleanly reinstall from the ground up. I honestly don't know how I can "start over" at this point or what I can really do, or even what questions I need to ask, since removing via add/remove programs seems to not be enough and it's not really being clear what's going wrong. The answer seems to be somewhere in this crash log, but I can't make heads or tails of it. I would just like to be able to start using addons my linkshell is telling me to get ahold of.

The launcher is giving up. It waits 30 seconds for hook to finish injecting itself and then aborts the process, saving out a crash log. Hook injection should only take a tiny fraction of a second, so if it's timing out after 30 seconds, then something is probably blocking the injection. Try adding an ignore rule to your anti-virus software, and see if that fixes the problem. 

The launcher is giving up. It waits 30 seconds for hook to finish injecting itself and then aborts the process, saving out a crash log. Hook injection should only take a tiny fraction of a second, so if it's timing out after 30 seconds, then something is probably blocking the injection. Try adding an ignore rule to your anti-virus software, and see if that fixes the problem. 

So I can get the program to launch, but POL crashes after loading the main game similar to this thread. The crash log has no new entries, though...