Game stuck on checking for updates after restarting machine w/SU5

I decided to restart machine after installing SU5 and on launch MSFS is stuck on checking for updates. CPU and GPU are idle. looks to be frozen. i tried restarting again to no avail. Please dont tell me i have to reinstall this again? thx

57 posts were merged into an existing topic: Checking for Updates Screen - Stuck

10 votes have been moved. 2 votes could not be moved because their users already voted in the other topic.

Hi @picklertune!

I’ve merged your topic into another one about the same issue that has more votes, so that we can keep all responses to this issue together and importantly so votes don’t get split between the two. Feel free to continue the discussion over on that thread.

Thanks!