Cubase 8 x64 Hangs on WaveShell-VST3 9.6_x64.vst3

I wasn’t as lucky.

Went wild at the sale, bought and installed 4 new Waves plugins.

Cubase now hangs on startup when Scanning VST 3 plugins. Bypassing prefs doesn’t help.

Tried moving the licenses around, and since it didn’t help, I uninstalled all Wave products using Wave Central.

Cubase still hangs at Scanning VST 3 plugins.

Put in a ticket at Waves.

Any ideas while I wait?

EDIT: also removed the wave shells from VST 3 folder, no improvement.