I’m sure you’ve been all over adobe’s forums. Dave LaRonde’s stock answer seems to help a lot of people. The only way I fixed it was by completely reinstalling my OS..
Hmm. Well after trying everything, I had had it all. I ended up re-installing my operating system. Then using disk cleanup to remove all older versions of windows. Hope others find the answer quicker than I did, but if all else fails you can always reboot your system!