Seems to have sorted the problem PG (the ‘top man’ strikes again!) - FYI the process ‘Steinberg Licence Engine’ no longer seems to run, not before during or after SAM has run. So am guessing that was part of the issue? When I ran the downloaded install of SAM it defaulted to the ‘do nothing’ option (presumably because it detected the most recent version was already installed) but I opted for the ‘reinstall’ option… I think the ‘top man’ may know the odd thing that we users do not! 
Many thanks (again) PG
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