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After Effects won't start, stuck on "Cleaning Up"

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October 30, 2020
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I was using AE just fine yesterday, turned off my computer last night and there was a cumulative Windows update. Booted today and I cannot get AE to load. 2020 or 2019, tried clearing the prefs, updating AE, reinstalling and even system restore to before the update last night. It keeps hanging on the "Cleaning Up" part when it loads, sometimes it hangs on cleaning up "Anywhere" sometimes "AEDynamicLinkServer".

Need some help ASAP...

Freeze or hang

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try to run it as administrator.

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Restarting the computer and reïnstalling AE didn't work. But for some reason running as administrator did work for me.

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SAME!

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Same issue

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Same

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same issue

ludvigs54223661

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Same

ludvigs54223661

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I updated Windows and now it works

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Check your event logs, security center and networking configuration. Something appears to be blocked somewhere.

Mylenium

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care to elaborate?