CapgrasDelusion

Agreed, just thought I'd be thorough. I blame UAC or something stupid I did along the way until proven otherwise.

GrantSP: Your shortcut works. It loads skyrim through MO with all mods working as far as I can tell in 5 seconds of testing. So at least my wife can easily load skyrim from a desktop icon, which is my main goal. Thank you very much. Nozzer66: Thanks, ha! The above still doesn't fix my being unable to run executables within MO without deleting the ini file every time, so I'll probably still move everything at some point since it makes it difficult to run LOOT. Thank you very much for the link. EDIT: So, I actually don't know how to do spoiler tags. I'm kind of an idiot. Here's a pastebin link to my ini file: https://pastebin.com/gG9SFtAT Oh, and Microsoft Security Essentials is my AV. I'll try disabling that when I get a chance.

Well... I was actually running 1.3.2. So I installed 1.3.3 and while it no longer crashes when trying to create the shortcut, the shortcut fails with "Access Denied [5]". I remember seeing that in a thread somewhere else so I'll chase that down. But it did nothing to fix the MO.ini issue. I still can't run any executables from mod organizer unless I delete the ini file every time. No change there with 1.3.3. EDIT: I'm guessing this is a permissions issue, since that seems to be a common thread among MO errors. UAC is disabled, everything is set to run as admin, all folders and files set to full permissions... I give up. Is there any easy way at all for me to move my steam install (and mod organizer by extension, since it's in my skyrim directory) out of c:\Program files (x86)\ without having to redo all the work I did? Took me all afternoon to reinstall all my mods in MO, but at this point I'm willing to do it.

Thank you for the reply. Yes, Skyrim and MO folders have full permissions (they were already set when I checked actually).

Ok, I searched and couldn't find anything like what I'm experiencing. I just built a new rig and figured I'd switch to MO since I had to reinstall skyrim anyway. I installed MO to my skyrim folder (ran the installer as administrator, set MO and SKSE to run as admin), installed my mods, ran SKSE through mod organizer and everything worked great. Closed it, went to bed, tried to create a shortcut to SKSE on the desktop using the button in MO, and MO crashed. Reloaded it, tried to just run SKSE "Executable "" Not Found". Googled that, found a guy on Reddit who had the same problem two days ago and said deleting the MO.ini file fixed it. Did that and sure enough I could run executables again. But it only fixes it that first run. As soon as I try to run it again, I can no longer run executables. Essentially I have to delete MO.ini every time. I'm at a total loss and would love any help. I'm on windows 64, here's my specs: https://wiki.step-project.com/User:CapgrasDelusion/SystemSpecs