It was playing on the same machine. Your timing is impeccable. I finally found a solution just now. I uninstalled everything and reinstalled everything to a different directory, including the wise launcher.
Prior to that I had put cube and wise itself into a non-program files folder, but the launcher was still in program files so maybe there was some miscommunication?
I also messed with firewall quite a bit but after literally turning it completely off yesterday I assumed that was not the answer.
Anyway thank you for the response I appreciate it