That sounds kinda terrible. Just for reference, I was able to see the sys.sql_logins view(not greyed out) from SSMS 2014 and I was able to right+click and SELECT TOP 1000. Not sure if that's what you were looking to do, but thought I might at least throw that out there in case there's something you can do to get it to work again.

Anyways, glad you got it figured out!