Ok, so why did MO not recognise or download any supported mods using the globe icon direct link and having configured MO to the exact specifications of the S.T.E.P guide, having tried 30+ times, but the second NMM is installed, it works? I'm not being sarcy I'm genuinely asking. I am not techy at all (but I can follow instructions such as the install guides) but what you said is what I thought it might be. Without installing NMM, Windows didn't know what the Nexus file types were and perhaps didn't add the right details, so MO in turn could not pick up the link? I don't know. In that case then, wouldn't NMM be essential, in order to teach Windows about this correlation? It seems that by installing NMM, it installed something that said 'OI, HELLO, WINDOWS, TELL MO THAT THIS LINK HERE IS FOR HIM.' Without NMM, how would I get the protocols to work? I have no idea. I appreciate your assurance, but the fact is MO did not work until I installed NMM :P. I lie not, I did not change a single setting after the last few failed attempts to download something via MO and prior to installing NMM. EDIT: Could it be (I can't check now without uninstalling and reinstalling) that MO had an outdated NMM version listed in the work around thingy, and that when I installed NMM, MO scanned it, saw it was a newer version, and updated the settings?