Latest versions of AE and AME 2020 do not connect

I don't have a firewall. I have un-installed and re-installed and gotten rid of old files and this STILL does not work. AME is essentially useless out of AE. The very least that should be done is re-establishing the H.264 option in the AE render queue. AME 14.0.4 and AE 17.0.5 Please give me a solution!