Ultimately, it was time for a new machine.   Upshot: Not installing Splunk on the new machine to avoid this from happening again. ... View more

I tried several different prior versions.  Splunk only accepts the single msi that was used to install and that is not available: splunk-7.0.1-2b5b15c4ee89-x64-release.msi I will need to manually start surgical removal of the prior version.   Definitely a negative when trying Splunk. ... View more