OK this is strange, the shortcut was pointing to the right place, but has the same problems, it even has that problem when clicking directly on the weatherdisplay.exe file in that folder.(C:\Wdisplay)
As a guess I opened the USB drive where I had WD stored, and clicked on the WDexe file there, it runs fine, the two locations are the same files, what the heck happened???
It will not run from C:\Wdisplay at all, but runs fine from H:\Wdisplay
And I have reinstalled this several times.
For now I’m going to let it run from the USB drive till this gets sorted out.