Nothing mentioned in those links worked. I have tried everything including cleaning the registry and redownloading.
I managed to find my original retail disc and cleaned everything using both CCleaner and the Adobe Creative Cloud Cleaner Tool. The installation went fine but when I go to open the program the same exact thing occurs. I then managed to get the updater to install and now have version 13.0.1
Still the same problem exists, the program starts and then immediately closes.
This is quite ridiculous considering I actually purchased the product.