Below are suggestions from MAXON Tech support (neither worked for me):
"I am wondering if your company's high security settings is the reason for all the issues in the first place. After Effects uses either port 5030 or 5027 to talk to C4D through Cineware. Perhaps that port is being blocked causing issues with Cinema and preventing the activation code to stick and you having to input it every time you launch C4D Lite.
First, lets find out what port number is being used. You can do so by going into the Cineware plugin and selecting option. This will bring up another window that contains the port number being used. I've attached an image showing where this is.
In fact, one thing you can try is changing it to 5027 if its 5030 and vice versa to see if that fixes the issue. I do recall this fixing some issue with C4D Lite in the past. Not necessarily what you are experiencing, but if it is a security issue this might get you around it. If you are still running in to the issues I would contact your IT department just to make sure the ports in question on not being blocked.
With the viewport, I've never come across an issue like this before. Have you attempted changing the layout on the upper right of the screen and reverting back to startup or standard (whichever it was set to in the first place)? Sometimes resetting the laying can fix weird issues like this."
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