Project becomes unresponsive shortly after opening

Hi All,
I have a few projects that have started locking up shortly after they are opened. I haven't worked on one in a few months, another has not been opened in almost a year.
 
The projects load to the point where I can start working normally for about 10 seconds before it locks up - the windows grey out and become unresponsive. The project says not responding and I get this extra ghost app showing in the task bar "HUDNowTimeFB." No amount of waiting brings it back. Since it never actually crashes there is no error log. Whether I interact with SONAR or not it locks up after about 10 seconds.
 
Any suggestions? Are there any debug arguments I can pass to the program to get some logs, or to shut off plug-ins, etc?
 
Also, not sure if this is related but another project that I have not touched in a few months has started crashing on start up.  I was able to report the crashes here: https://www.cakewalk.com/Support/Contact/Problem-Report-Status/64758.  The lock/crash behavior is consistent with respect to each project. To clarify, all of these projects are currently unusable.
 
Thanks