Glad it works now.
The reason Minion get's stuck there could be several. Your installed software, windows patch level, anti virus tools, firewall, anti-whatever software installed, driver issues, ...
Minion cannot detect and say why it needs time here. Maybe there also exists any bug in Minion itsself (but this did never happen for me e.g. since 2014 so I assume it's a combination of your setup and software of the PC).
Your steps 1, 2, 4 (where is 3
) and 5 are the important ones.
4 could also just delete the Minion.xml file. Make sure Minion is not active in the task manager as you do this!
Step 5 is mentioned in the troubleshooting as well, see troubleshoot point 9:
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After a fresh installation/new chosen addon directory minion sometimes refuses to show the addons! Please wait ~5 Minutes and restart Minion then. If it still fails to show them, restart it again after a few minutes. If after 5 times the addons are not shown read the sticky thread how to report a bug and post your minion.xml and log files please
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