Ok stuck. It WAS not a fresh install, however I went through and uninstalled MySQL/MariaDB and Perl in an attempt to make it a fresh install. (No EQ server files remained either). After 6 attempts to install/uninstall I always run into the same problem so I'm hoping someone has a fix:
I've uninstalled VBS and reinstalled it, tried to repair it so I'm not sure what is not playing well with others.
EDIT: I fixed it by downloading what I could from here:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/down...s.aspx?id=8328