"Preferences popups" for painter - UGH

Hi all, I'm hoping someone can help me out.

I keep getting this annoying pop up, which started about a week ago, shown below.

I have followed a bunch of different discussions on here to get to the bottom of it, here is a list of things I have tried already:

1. Uninstall and reinstall painter.

2. Uninstall all apps and uninstall CC, reinstalling it afterwards.

3. "clean" uninstalling as well as using the CC cleaning tool I found on another topic about popups. 

4. Keeping painter uninstalled for a couple of days, however the error still pops up without the software being installed.

I'm at my wits end, the pop up crashes open software, games, etc. but I also need painter installed for my job. Nothing I have tried has worked so far. If this is a bug I sincerely hope it gets fixed soon because this makes my CC unusable. 

Painter is currently installed at the 8.2.0 version, on Windows 11, let me know if you need any more info as I just want this fixed now.