After Effects 2025 freezes constantly and wont quit even with task manager!

My Specs:

Mobile Nvidia RTX 5090

Intel(R) Core Ultra 9 275HX, 2700 Mhz, 24 Core

128 gigs of DDR5 Ram

4 Terabytes of NVMe SSD Storage.

Hey there, guys!

I've been getting back into editing, but for some reason, After Effects keeps freezing even when I am doing nothing more than moving clips around in the timeline. Even worse, the program won't quit even when I try to kill the process in Task Manager. The only solution I have found is to restart my laptop altogether. I've tried almost every solution imaginable, yet I've seen no improvement. This all started when I tried to motion track and stabilize some footage in After Effects, but it froze almost instantly. At first, I thought maybe it was just the process taking up a lot of resources, but as time went on, the program started to freeze even when doing the most basic of tasks. 

Here are all the things I have tried with no improvement:

Purged all Cache

Adjusted Memory Settings (over 100 gigs is assigned to AE)

Disabled Hardware Acceleration & Multi-frame rendering

Started in safemode

Disabled all Plugins

Updated and freshly installed my NVIDIA Studio drivers

Reinstalled the app TWICE

And even got a fresh installation of Windows.

At first, I thought it might have been due to some corrupted or outdated plugins that I might have had, but since I am not on a fresh install of Windows, there are no longer any plugins that could have caused this issue. I haven't downloaded anything yet, other than After Effects and the footage I recorded. It's definitely not a hardware issue from what I can tell. Premiere, which I installed right after, runs perfectly fine. Just after effects, which freezes constantly. Am I missing something? Is there any solution I haven't tried yet? I just want to edit! Thank you for any insight! (Also, my laptop is set to performance mode through Windows. Not power/battery saver.)