Hey @nothanks –
I’m sorry for the trouble you’ve been having. Much of what you are describing sounds like some sort of security setting, or Antivirus preventing Local from working with the components that it needs to manage sites.
Have there been any recent upgrades to Windows, or any recent changes to security settings?
In addition to answering the above question, can you please provide your local-by-flywheel.log file? See this Community Forum post for instructions on how to do so: