Lightroom CC freezes on splash screen

I've seen lots of posts about Lightroom CC crashing, but my problem seems to be different.
I installed Lightroom CC through the CC app.  When I launch the app, it asks me to update my catalog.  After the "Updating Catalog" dialog finishes, it launches Lightroom, my catalog appears in the background and then it freezes on the splash screen.  If I click anywhere, it goes black behind the splash screen and the program says it's Not Responding.  Here's what I've tried:
- waited a really long time to see if it was actually doing something
- restarted computer
- uninstalled and reinstalled Lightroom CC (on a different hard drive)
- quit creative cloud app and relaunched
- logged out (via preferences) and logged back into creative cloud
- started a new catalog instead of updating a current catalog
- reset/trash preferences
No matter what I do, it freezes on the splash screen.  Can anyone help?
I'm using Windows 8.

Hi, first of all excuse me about my Englis.
I had the same type of problem you described! The program, after a logged out and logged back in in the creative cloud desktop app, just freezes.
I did this way and it now works properly:
- I make sure I just have my older catalog plus the preview file in one folder
- I lunch Lightroom and when the upgrade dialogue box appears I created a new catalog (choose desktop as destination so it is easy to find later) and click ok
- At this point you should be inside Lightroom with an empty catalog
- from the pull down menu under "Lightroom" (on Mac, on Windows I guess it should be under "File") choose: "open differe catalog" and on the next window look for your old catalog"
- Lightroom should tell you that the catalog needs to be upgrade and after you confirm and after the catalog conversion process ends you should be inside Lightroom with your old catalog upgraded and working
- next time you start Lightroom it should be working as expected.
- delete the folder Lightroom created on the desktop for the new catalog you created before.
bye!
Mattia

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