Ok, I will check that out.  One thing I just tried was Uninstalling NPP again and then DELETING the Notepad++ folder.  Downloaded the latest and installed.  It worked!!!  BUT, I installed some of the plugins I had before and bam, does not remember anymore.  I think it is Tidy, since that is one of the more recent ones.  It could be the XML tools as well.
For anyone trying to figure this out, the plugins I added after it was working, one of which made it fail could be one (or more) of these:  Tidy2, XML Tools, NppAutoIndent, NppFTP, JSTool, JSON Viewer.
I have had the last 4 for a long time.  Tidy2 and XML Tools are when this issue started.