V2.0.05 lightburn hangs at splash

Lightburn is hanging at the splash screen. Day before it was fine. using latest version V2.0.05. using norton 360. task manager shows 6% CPU and 56M memory. windows 11, rebooted, re-installed software over existing - no help, rebooted computer, removed prefs.ini/old, uninstalled Lightburn and reinstalled including C++, no help.???