...Surprised that the uninstall worked this time and I was able to go with just a reinstall of Bitdefender which worked fine.
All is well now.
Thanks again....
This is implemented for some time now, but it requires a step when uninstalling. So basically when uninstall/reinstall, the option to choose is to pick Reinstall, not Uninstall....
The uninstall option for reinstall is crucial, if this is not specified, uninstallation will not save the settings and on a subsequent install the product will get configured with the defaults....