Walt,
I can guarantee you that they are installed in the provided default locations; "C:\Program Files\Affinity\{Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo}". I was not stating that Designer is the
cause of the current issue of the problems I am having, I was just following a possible line of thinking presented by stokerg. However, if the product can not function when installed in the same family parent folder in this case "Affinity" then that is a bug. This also doesn't address the issue of being able to re-enter a product key without having to reinstall the software; I know I am beating a dead horse here, but when a challenge for product key should be given to the user so that they may correct the issue on their in. I understand maybe this may have been done to help with piracy of the product. But neither the current implementation or the one I have mentioned, with "curb" that situation.
This is really my biggest frustration with the project and not that it wants a valid product key.