I appreciate the idea, I am really terrified of doing anything to the registry.
A couple of years back I did one edit to my registry, following explicit instructions from MacAfee to "fix" a screw up of theirs in their stupid anti-virus program, and it lobotomized my operating system and caused a nightmare requiring paid techs to fix.  They just shrugged and said "oops".

If DAZ has written code that can't clean up after itself properly (which I'm starting to suspect, since all my other major graphics software, including Poser and ZBrush, run fine) then I want to hear it from them personally what I need to do.

Man, this is SO frustrating.
I do not have an unusual or atypical setup in any way shape or form:  All my settings and hardware are largely vanilla.  WHY do I always end up being the one guy who ends up with the "test case" for an unknown software glitch?