Can't run it offline..? huh?
No you have to at least log into Microsoft once in a while. It's my music machine, and last time it saw the net it got bombarded with updates to win 7 professional that I suspect of breaking win 7 stuff.
...and that's a problem in 2016?
Either that or my treasured emu1212 croaked the exact same day.
So I found the culprit, it was the way the project-name was formatted. With the little stripe. Glad to find out, not doing so would yield an entire string of problems :|