BlueStacks App player Error: Controls created on one thread cannot be parented to a control on a different thread

Having just performed a fresh install of Bluestacks 2 on an machine that never had it, it's running like crap. There are two or three error messages on startup, including the one from the title.

A search on the title error message, got only a few hits, and oddly the one that was most related to the problems that I am seeing was in a M$ knowledge base:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-windows_install/bluestacks-2-not-working-help/0bfcd762-a16f-4f20-bc53-d8dc918d7d0f?auth=1

Hay Day for Windows

It turns out that while there isn't a Windows "version" of Hay Day, there is an Android emulator for Windows that will run the Android version of Hay Day. The emulator is called Bluestacks.

http://www.bluestacks.com/

There's a ton of hits for "Hay Day for Windows" that all point back to downloading bluestacks. The sheer number of different web pages suggesting this after indirectly promising a windows version of the app is suspicious. Here is review of bluestacks by a reputable site that convinced me that it might not be a scam after all:

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/how-to-run-bluestacks,review-1912.html

A lot of reviewers on Cnet were convinced that bluestacks introduced viruses to their systems, while others mocked those reviews and indicated that if they declined bundling options (a step which does not seem to exist in the most recent release) that they had no issues:

http://download.cnet.com/BlueStacks-App-Player/3000-18513_4-75593133.html