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So, I was working on a project one night (nothing new there) and the following morning I came to open After Effects and the thing loads but just sits not responding. This is after all the all the modules and plugins have loaded and you are left at the workspace.
I know I was playing with some services the night before, but I can't think for the life of me how any of the alterations would have affected ae. I have backtracked and reset some but to no avail.
Since the problem I have tried updating AE as well as my graphics drivers (ati 4870). This is on win7 64bit btw.
Appreciate any comments, I'm tearing my hair out. Also to note; no other CS5 apps are affected and I have yet to attempt a reinstall.

Thanks alot for your reply.
Trashing the prefs did not do anything unfortunately.
I do not recall touching those services, but that does not mean I did not I guess. But not only that, I could not find them in the services list nor in startup. Baffled..
I'm not sure why my firewall might suddenly kick in and be blocking this, no changes were made in this respect.

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