Crystal Reports freezing when trying to edit a formula

When creating a new report or modifying a current report, if I select a formula and click on Edit the applicatiojn freezes. Also, if I try to do anything with the database connection it also freezes. This just started happining yesterday out of the blue. Using Crystal Reports 2008.
Already tried to uninstall/nstall CR with no luck. Unable to do virtually anything with CR.

Just out of curiosity, might Crystal have been run by the same user with a very wide or dual head monitor setup (and you're on a smaller monitor)?
Crystal will display all dialogs where it was last displayed. If you run Crystal on a dual head system, drag a dialog to the far right, then run Crystal on a single head system and bring up the same dialog, it will look like Crystal has frozen (no response), but in actuality, it's waiting for input on the non-existent monitor! Generally, pressing the Escape key will close the dialog.
Crystal stores the location of dialogs in the System Registry. You can remove the entry for the given dialog and Crystal will revert to a "default" location. (Modify the registry at your own risk...) I don't recall the registry keys for these, but there are other posts (fairly old now) that has it. Searching the forum for "dual monitor" and similar, together with "system registry" should do it, I'd think...
There is a request in to have Crystal ensure dialogs are on the current desktop.
HTH,
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