Photoshop CC gets stuck on scanning for plugins

Windows 8.1 i7 256Gb SSHD
Photoshop Creative Cloud newly updated
On clicking photoshop icon task manager show photoshop stuck in Background Process
doesn't move up to Apps
if photoshop later starts after many minutes then
it gets stuck for minutes on scanning for plugins
when scanning for plugins task manager shows that it is essentially idle
whereas LR opens immediately and shows CPU use up over 20%
PS CC still at zero
about 10 or 15 minutes later then PS finally wakes up
What is the problem with photoshop getting stuck on not starting only starting as a background process and then not scaning for plug ins until 5 or 10 minutes later?

A frequent reason for stalling Photoshop on start up, are bad font files, so I would think the same would be true with a corrupted filter or plugin.
CC handles third party plugins differently to older versions, and you can't point to a folder like you could with CS6 etc. This link might help
https://support.alienskin.com/hc/en-us/articles/200145325-Using-a-custom-plug-ins-folder-w ith-Photoshop-CC

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