Vortex is a game mod manager. I hadn't come back to the forum because I thought that shutting down Vortex was the fix but the problem returned and closing Vortex didn't help. Both DVD's and BD's taking forever to rip! (overnight a DVD TV series with 3 episodes had only completed 20% by morning.) A characteristic of the problem is that the Bluray drive heads are forever moving, chunk-chunk, chunk-chunk... This time stopping Nero BackItUp (which if you read my previous note I also shut down last time simply because I never use it.) seemed to correct the problem. I have had the latest version of the Nero Suite for many, many years and, I'm quite certain that Nero BackItUp has been part of the suite for a long time as well. Maybe the last update doesn't play well with AnyDVD. Nero BackItUp installation defaults have it loading upon startup such that even if you've never used it like me, it's there in the background (which is why I had it running in the background again because, while I shut the process down in the previous fix, it reloaded at the next bootup). And then again, maybe the next batch of DVD/BDs that I try to rip will be thwarted by yet another background process.