Lightroom becomes unresponsive and crashes after most recent update.

Well... this is not fun!  I just updated Lightroom Classic this morning and when trying to edit a photo it becomes extremely unstable and unresponsive and finally crashes.    Not good considering I have a number of photos I need to edit... Why is this happening and how to I fix it?

Here is what Event Viewer says:

The program Lightroom.exe version 14.0.0.9 stopped interacting with Windows and was closed. To see if more information about the problem is available, check the problem history in the Security and Maintenance control panel.

- <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
- <System>
<Provider Name="Application Hang" Guid="{c631c3dc-c676-59e4-2db3-5c0af00f9675}" />
<EventID>1002</EventID>
<Version>0</Version>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>101</Task>
<Opcode>0</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x8000000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2024-10-15T20:28:58.6601800Z" />
<EventRecordID>101882</EventRecordID>
<Correlation />
<Execution ProcessID="4140" ThreadID="15260" />
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>timmyd7</Computer>
<Security UserID="S-1-5-18" />
</System>
- <EventData>
<Data Name="AppName">Lightroom.exe</Data>
<Data Name="AppVersion">14.0.0.9</Data>
<Data Name="ProcessId">0xb18</Data>
<Data Name="StartTime">0x1db1f3c371a85fc</Data>
<Data Name="TerminationTime">430</Data>
<Data Name="ExeFileName">C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Lightroom Classic\Lightroom.exe</Data>
<Data Name="ReportId">9b9aef00-1a48-4d7b-9d12-60a1309d22f3</Data>
<Data Name="PackageFullName" />
<Data Name="PackageRelativeAppId" />
<Data Name="HangType">Unknown</Data>
</EventData>ppId
HangType Unknown