Rhino 7 Not Responding on Startup: No Extra plugins installed

Rhino Rhino for Windows
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Hello Everyone,
For the past week or so, my Rhino 6 and Rhino 7 refuse to actually open. I can see the screen to select a file, and then the Rhino window opens, but it then stops responding. I have no plugins installed, and I uninstalled and reinstalled Rhino 7. Rhino works fine when I open it in safe mode, however.

Here is my system info text:
Rhino 7 SR4 2021-3-8 (Rhino 7, 7.4.21067.13001, Git hash:master @ ed629035202f07e8b84a3ee211479ca20bb81b73)
License type: Evaluation, build 2021-03-08
License details: Cloud Zoo
Expires on: 2021-06-03

Windows 10.0.19041 SR0.0 or greater (Physical RAM: 16Gb)

Computer platform: LAPTOP - Plugged in [96% battery remaining]

Non-hybrid graphics configuration.
Primary display and OpenGL: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (NVidia) Memory: 8GB, Driver date: 2-23-2021 (M-D-Y). OpenGL Ver: (null)
> Integrated accelerated graphics device with 4 adapter port(s)
- Secondary monitor is laptop’s integrated screen or built-in port
- Windows Main Display attached to adapter port #1

OpenGL Settings
Safe mode: On
Use accelerated hardware modes: On
Redraw scene when viewports are exposed: On

Anti-alias mode: 4x
Mip Map Filtering: Linear
Anisotropic Filtering Mode: High

Vendor Name: Unknown
Render version: (null)
Shading Language: (null)
Driver Date: 2-23-2021
Driver Version: 27.21.14.6172
Maximum Texture size: n/a
Z-Buffer depth: n/a
Maximum Viewport size: n/a
Total Video Memory: 8 GB

Rhino plugins that do not ship with Rhino

Rhino plugins that ship with Rhino
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\Commands.rhp “Commands” 7.4.21067.13001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\rdk.rhp “Renderer Development Kit”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\RhinoScript.rhp “RhinoScript”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\RhinoRenderCycles.rhp “Rhino Render” 7.4.21067.13001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\Toolbars\Toolbars.rhp “Toolbars” 7.4.21067.13001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\WebBrowser.rhp “WebBrowser”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\IdleProcessor.rhp “IdleProcessor”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\Alerter.rhp “Alerter”

Thanks for any advice.

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Hello - does Rhino start in Safe Mode?

Start Rhino in Safe Mode: Windows start menu, type in ‘Rhinoceros’ and look for the ‘Rhinoceros in Safe Mode’ entry.

I think I’d be inclined to do a complete clean install of the GPU driver - this does not look all that promising to me

Vendor Name: Unknown
Render version: (null)
Shading Language: (null)
Driver Date: 2-23-2021
Driver Version: 27.21.14.6172
Maximum Texture size: n/a
Z-Buffer depth: n/a
Maximum Viewport size: n/a
Total Video Memory: 8 GB

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-Pascal

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Hello, thank you for the advice.

Rhino does start in safe mode, which is how I was able to get the systeminfo text.
Yesterday, it randomly started working for a bit completely normally, but when I close Rhino and reopened it, it stopped working again.

After that, I clean installed but graphics drivers, but it hasn’t resolved the issue. When I start Rhino in safe mode and turn on the plugins manually, it still works, so I’m not sure what the issue could be.

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Hello- can you tell which plugin is the one that makes the difference as you enable them, or are you saying that you can enable all of them and it just works if you do it that way?

-Pascal

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Hello Pascal,
I am saying that I can enable all of the plugins and Rhino will still work in safe mode.