Premiere 2020 Dynamic Link with After Effects is locking up Premiere

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I just bought a brand new PC 2 days ago, Windows 10, installed the latest version of Premiere Pro 14.5  and After Effects 17.5

All worked great...built my project in PP and used dynamic link to import and link my AE files.

Came back to my computer this morning and when I try to import AE files using dynamic link, Premiere just locks up and freezes. I dont get it?

So far I have tried:

• reinstalling PP and AE both the latest version and the last version 
• I checked windows updates since it updates in the middle of the night and it did install the following Windows updates, which I am assuming possibly broke somthing with my dynamic link library?  I tried to roll back these updates but Dynamic Link Library still doesnt work.
  • 2020-10 Cummulative update for Windows 10 Version 2004 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4579311/windows-10-update-kb4579311
  • 2020-10 Cummulative Update for .NET Framework
    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4578968/kb4578968-cumulative-update-for-net-framework
• I turned off my firewall as I read an article that might be blocking it?

This is a 2 day old PC with hardly anything installed on it. Worked fine one day, came back the next and doesnt work? 

*** Any suggestiuons short of doing these next steps to try to fix it?

1. Uninstall and reinstall Creativce Cloud and programs, which were only PP, AE, AI, Media Ecoder, and Animate.
2. If that doesnt work, only other thing I know to do is to reset my computer to factory mode and reinstall. But at this point I have already lost half of my day, and will loose at least another half doing this when I am under the pressure of a tight project deadline. Im beyond frustrated!

Any other suggestions are greatly appreciated!

It would be great to know what has caused this problem where the Premiere DLL worked day 1 but not day 2 on a fresh brand new computer. Obviosly if I reinstall it has a chance of happening again, so I will just have abort the idea of linking my media and go through the unefficient process of rendering files from AE to bring into Premiere.