Audacity Not Opening

Hi
I have a Dell XPS13-9380 running windows 10 pro 20H2.
I have installed audacity 3.0.4 (no previous versions).
When I try to open audacity, I get the audacity logo and then audacity just hangs.
I have tried deleting the3 files in the appdata/local/roaming/audacity file and restarting.
I have to use task manager to stop audacity running as I am unable to see anything.
Thank you for any help you can offer

Did you get Audacity from here: https://www.audacityteam.org/download/

Have you tried rebooting your computer?

Using task manager is an excellent start to solving a problem like this.
While Audacity is hanging check a few things in TASK MANAGER.

  1. Have look to see if there is any rogue app hogging cpu cycles.
  2. In the search bar, type CONTROL PANEL (Look in the top right corner for VIEW BY - choose ICONS (large or small)
  3. Click ADMINISTRATIVE TOOLS
  4. Click EVENT VIEWER
  5. Open WINDOWS LOGS
  6. Click APPLICATION
    Scroll down the middle Payne and see if there is anything immediately apparent.
    If nothing turns-up, then a clean uninstall / install usually works.
    After uninstalling, manually delete any residual folders left over.
    After doing the above, re-boot and download a fresh copy - ONLY FROM THE AUDACITY WEBSITE.

Yes i did, thank you

Thank you - after about 3 minutes audacity suddenly opened. I could not see anything untoward in the area you had mentioned.
Thanj you again for your suport, I really appreciate it.

My issue seemed to be with rode nt usb mini which caused multiple crashes. The error reports have been forwarded to audacity