This would have been better posted in the Minion forums!
Did you remove the minion.xml file and did you check what the minion.log file tells you as the loading process hangs?
Maybe a firewall or something blocks the contact to the minion servers.
Read this therad please, maybe it helps:
https://www.esoui.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8606
https://www.esoui.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6699