OS: Windows 7 Professional SP1 (32-bit)
Late last week CC was working well: PS installed paid and several additional apps installed for free trial.
Earlier this evening after restarting my system a pop-up appeared indicating an update was available for the CC Desktop. The installation attempt failed. When I attempted to open the Adobe Creative Cloud application from the Start menu I had two options: Quit or Install the upgrade. I chode the latter, which failed again.
Attempting to start any CC application resulted in a message box with Error 16 and an indication the application may beed to be uninstalled.
I then signed on to the Windows Administrator ID. I was able to start the CC applications, but experienced the same behavior with the Adobe Creative Cloud application. I again attempted to install the update, which failed again.
Going back to my ID I was now able to start all the CC applications except Adobe Creative Cloud.
I then uninstalled Adobe Creative Cloud from the Windows Programs and Features page. After doing so I was unable to install any Adobe apps, including Adobe Creative Cloud, presumably because there was no application installed to handle the AAM: protocol specified in the links associated with the Download buttons.
I then restored the system from a Windows restore point created yesterday, before these problems started. After rebooting Adobe Creative Cloud was present in the Windows Start Menu, however the application would not start: there were no error messages and I did not observe even a brief application start in the Windows Task Manager Applications window.
Doing some Google searched, I found a post elsewhere in the Adobe forums which suggested renaming the foler OOBE to OOBE_old. I did this and repeated the above with no discernable change in behavior.
I then again attempted to download the Adobe Creative Cloud application. This tome there were several pop-up boxes requesting autorization to download the code. After accepting all of these there was no sign of any further activity, including creation of any additional processes in the Windows Task Manager window. A new OOBE folder was not created.
Now when I start Photoshop I receive a warning the the Application Manager is not present to validate that the license is active.
What next, folks?