Adobe Media Encoder CS5 doesn't work anymore (WHY? WHAT's WRONG?)

The system I use is Adobe Production Premium CS5.
I have often used Adobe Media Encoder CS5 started from the export of a film sequence in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.
On the 31st of December 2013 my computer crashed and dumped more or less at the end of a process of Adobe Media Encoder CS5. There was no complete output.
Since then this program Adobe Media Encoder CS5 cannot start up anymore.
It stops at the start-up saying that the program does not work anymore and that there will be looked for a solution. But then it finishes saying that it will be reported if a solution becomes available in the future.
I have tried the following:
- Run Adobe Media Encoder CS5 (exe) from directory C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Media Encoder CS5 => same problem.
- Stop security control AVG while not online with internet => run Adobe Media Encoder CS5 => same problem.
- Reinstalled complete Production Premium CS5 suite => same problem.
- Removed complete directory C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Media Encoder CS5 and then reinstalled Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 => the full directory C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Media Encoder CS5 with contents was there after the install, but subsequent running of Adobe Media Encoder CS5 => same problem.
- Removed complete contents of D:\mediacache\database\Media Cache and D:\mediacache\Media Cache Files => same problem.
What more can I do ??????
I would be very grateful for a solution.
Regards, Arie de Jong, Rotterdam

Hi Jim,
Thank you very much for the suggestions for a solution. First I considered
re-installing Win 7 Pro, because I did not have a fall-back point
predefined. So I could not try to reload a previous system environment. But
for your information the following.
Yesterday my son suggested that there could be some corruption in a control
file of Adobe Media Encoder, because re-installing that program did not
give a solution. Obviously that then would have to be a file which is not
affected by a program re-install.
What he then did for me is to remove directory
Users\owner\ AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Media Encoder    (he actually
renamed it to hide that directory for Media Encoder).
Thereafter we ran program Media Encoder from Premiere. The result was that
a new directory ......\ Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Media Encoder with proper
control files was automatically generated and the problem was solved.
Regards from Arie de Jong

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