Regarding Empire Earth 2.

I guess I missed something. I can run the game, Sorta, I can load to the point of reaching most of the settings other than the stuff near the bottom. it opens in a window but then the mouse cannot reach anything near the bottom, like the ever important (Launch) button. So yeah, Not playable. Is there a fix? I see some multiplayer mumbo jumbo etc but I have zero desire to do MP, I just want to play the game solo. Any fixes?

I suppose I will see if EE 3 will not work as well....

You can try Unofficial Patch 1.5: https://www.ee2.eu/patch

It would allow you to start in the full screen mode, with native screen resolution and DirectX 9.
For all the details and information, I'd recommend to check that web page.