Thanks for the reply. I'm using Pro, 6.8.0
I may have just never noticed #2 before but at any rate I was just curious about it.
The thing with #1 is that I only started seeing it after the Windows upgrade and reinstall of Helicon.
It is not preventing me from using the program so I'm not too ...

After upgrading to Win 10 Pro and reinstalling Helicon Focus I started having two strange things happen.
First when the images to be stacked are loaded I get a spinning blue circle for a really long time (30 sec or more). It sometimes goes away if I hover the mouse over the 'render' button. Before ...