managed to fix it for those interested, I had to redownload and install edgewebview2
to do this I ended up getting the installer from https://developer.microsoft.com/en-u...A13LH#download

from there I initially had an error that was stating it was already installed to get around this I had to activate the installer with the right click --> use as admin function. This forced it to install the new files over the bad/corrupt ones.