1.) Uninstalled Vortex - Via the control panel [Vortex-1-0-17-11-1554901229.exe]2.) Uninstalled Fallout 4 - Via Steam3.) Rebooted4.) Verified that the Fallout 4 was gone5.) Installed Fallout ; after install unchecked the "High Resolution Texture Pack"6.) Installed Vortex; after it installed and ran, I ran into the same issue, but vortex seemed to think it was still managing Fallout 47.) I used Revo Unistaller Pro to uninstall Vortex8.) Re-installed Vortex and got no errors , accepted that Vortex will handle NMM links.9.) Logged onto the NMM website with my default browser.10.) From the Vortex dashboard, I clicked on the little red head icon [upper right] and was prompted to log in on website. [pressed button], browser tab opened and I pressed the authorize button .11.) Via Vortex, I clicked on the games tab, there was Zero manged games and [7] Discovered12.] I hovered my mouse over Fallout 4 and clicked Manage. Vortex gave me a busy mouse for just a couple of seconds and I have 3 alerts. a.) Mods can't be deployedb.) Loose files may not get loadedc.) failed to sun from profile 13.) For Mods can't be deployed I clicked on "Fix" , read the dialog and then clicked on fix that took me to the "mods" tab where I clicked on "suggest" [the path was updated to the same drive that the game was installed on] I clicked apply. I got a dialog stating that the destination folder has to be empty, since I had an previous install of vortex, there was a folder with fallout 4 folder. I removed the fallout4 folder and the dialog went away. 14.) For Loose files may not get loaded - I clicked on the fix and the prompt went away.15.) For failed to sun from profile - I clicked dismiss16.) I then went to the NMM site and located a mod to install " Unofficial Fallout 4 Patch " [ 4598 ] and clicked Download: [Vortex] button17.) The mod downloaded via Vortex, clicked on the install button , then after the install I clicked on the Enable button.