unspecified file character not found in line

[AnarCon]

i get this error when trying to launch the game, ive tried installing it in 3 seperate locations without any improvment:
<unspecified file>(1): "=" character not found in line
any help is most appriciated, im addicted to the game so the sooner i get it fixed the faster i can back to my micromanging addiction
version: 0.11.16 if that got anything to do with it

[AnarCon]

hmmm seems to be a corrupt installer, dl'ed the ziped version and seems to work fine YAY

[AnarCon]

and it seems the error is back
now affects the old versions as well
initialy it was saying something was wrong in the config.ini file, i check and it was blanked out, is this cuz i have several installations?
however i found a defaul_config.ini with it and copied what was in that to the config.ini file and it started atleast, however it said the player data was corrupted so now i gotta store it all over again and start from scratch on my save most likely
any help on issue is most appriciated

[cube]

Your data are stored in ApplicationDirectory, try deleting C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Factorio