Cannot patch everqest

I started up the launchpad, it attempts to patch everquest, and fails claiming it cannot write eqgame.exe. Permissions on the folder are fine, there is no eqgame.exe file at all right now, the first failed attempt at the patch appears to have removed it. It is already whitelisted for my antivirus and firewall. I am out of ideas.

**** Starting at Sat Jun 19 16:56:23 2021 with plug-in 1.0.3.195 ****
2350-00:00:00:Checking game installation...
2350-00:00:01:Found 1 file(s) to update.
1a1c-00:00:01:Creating eqgame.exe
1a1c-00:00:02:*RetryWrite: Unable to write: F:/Everquest/eqgame.exe (attempt 1)
1a1c-00:00:03:*RetryWrite: Unable to write: F:/Everquest/eqgame.exe (attempt 2)
1a1c-00:00:05:*RetryWrite: Unable to write: F:/Everquest/eqgame.exe (attempt 3)
1a1c-00:00:08:*RetryWrite: Unable to write: F:/Everquest/eqgame.exe (attempt 4)
1a1c-00:00:12:*RetryWrite: Unable to write: F:/Everquest/eqgame.exe (attempt 5)
1a1c-00:00:17:*RetryWrite: Unable to write: F:/Everquest/eqgame.exe (attempt 6)
1a1c-00:00:23:*RetryWrite: Unable to write: F:/Everquest/eqgame.exe (attempt 7)
1a1c-00:00:30:*RetryWrite: Unable to write: F:/Everquest/eqgame.exe (attempt 8)
1a1c-00:00:38:*RetryWrite: Unable to write: F:/Everquest/eqgame.exe (attempt 9)
1a1c-00:00:47:*RetryWrite: Unable to write: F:/Everquest/eqgame.exe (attempt 10)
1a1c-00:00:57:*Error: UnableToWrite - F:/Everquest/eqgame.exe - http://eq.patch.daybreakgames.com/patch/sha/eq/eq.sha.zs/80/808/b6a149152ccb8dbe42d6b99ef26d6377a83

Looks like it was a Windoze patch issue, not everquest related.