Script "hangs" when creating new activexobject

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1

I have a line of code that never finishes on my desktop but is working fine on laptop.

DOpus.Output("creating windows shell");
var windowsShell = new ActiveXObject('WScript.Shell');
DOpus.Output("finished creating shell");

"creating windows shell is displayed, but not "finished creating shell"

Any Idea why this is not progressing?

I am having some other weird behavior with opus on that machine, but I don't want to complicate this. I haven't tried reinstalling or Windows Clean install yet. I wanted to check here first.

2

Either Antivirus is blocking it or the Windows install is broken.

3

The windows install is probably broken then. Directory opus starts doing all kinds of weird things on that machine after I have been using it for a while. I can't open folders and some other weird stuff. Usually, I can still safely exit the program but sometimes the buttons can't be clicked even though I can still scroll directory with mouse wheel.

I need to do a clean install on that machine anyway. So not a big deal.