Import photos-choose folder then Lightroom freezes

Everything was working fine until I decided to upgrade to 1.3.1. Did so and then when I wanted to (during import) choose a folder for my import the program freezes. I uninstalled to 1.3. Still same problem. Then I uninstalled everything with Lightroom (even regedit) so I had to rewrite my serialnumber during install - still the same problem. What has happened?

Thanks for the input. I think though that the problem was the following: I had started a backup of catalog thing. It might be so that it wasn´t ready (even if I thought so) before I started to upgrade to 1.3.1. So the upgrade messed around with something. Now it works, but I had to change several times in the Import Photos "screen". Change between the different possibilities and different files to import. (Chant some old shaman songs not to mention to recite the Kirchoff´s Laws was something that I did in the end - I think that actually did the trick).
But it could of course be something completely different.

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