Unreal freezes on 96%

You have pretty close to same laptop I have. I’m not sure what exactly made it go away for me but here are steps I took. Maybe it will help you. First I completely removed unreal (i.e. editor and launcher) I re-downloaded them and reinstalled. Then I rebooted my computer and deleted every version of mono that I had on my computer. It randomly went away sometime after I did that. I hope that helps.