Cubase 14 stuck Initializing: Scanning VST 3 Plug-ins

Just did a clean install of Cubase 14, renamed 13 folder so I get a fresh start and will tweak preferences later. Second attempt to get Cubase Pro 14 to start up and it hangs on scanning VST and task manager shows it is checking licenses.
How long does this VST scan take? Or is this a known bug.
I only have about 20 VST3 plugins on this machine.

Going on 15 minutes so far.
I have rebooted after installing and activation.

Hello
the plugins are in the folder:

C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3

and they are in vst3 version?

because otherwise you have to activate the small vst2 button

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and it is not the same file

C:\Program Files\Steinberg\VSTPlugins

or

C:\Program Files\VSTPlugins

otherwise you have to manually add the location

It could be that the vstscanner or vstscannermaster is choking and therefore hanging indefinitely. If you reboot again and restart Cubase, does it get stuck again or does it suddenly work? If not, have a look in the list of processes (Win: Task Manager, Mac: Activity Monitor) does it show a vstscannermaster or vstscanner process?

@Freuden - FYI, this issue was that it was the first time starting Cubase Pro 14 and it never loaded so I could not get to the VST 2 button.
I rebooted a couple times after hanging and decided to use the third option in that dialog one gets after having to end task. For the computer in question, I’m not using VST 2 so once I got Cubase loaded. I made a few preference changes and quit and restarted a few times and it seems to be working now. Thank you.