Not sure whether this is a solution or I just ran into some luck. But I changed the .exe file's compatibilty to Windows 7 and it coincided with it working. However, out of curiosity I then uninstalled and reinstalled without the Win 7 compatibilty mode and it worked as well. Initially I was working back through the escribe versions to see if that would work and just before I installed the 2015.08.07 version (the one on which I decided to change the compatibility) I had to reboot my system. Maybe this had something to do with it. I'm confused but happy it's working.