Creative cloud app kills windows 8 on install or update.

I searched in vain for any support or way to contact support from Adobe. Every link just goes round in circles and ends up with the forums.  So as far as I can tell, Adobe offer zero support for the creative cloud product I have just purchased.
Anyway, just in case that any Adobe staff read these forums, and want to take note of major problems, the adobe cloud application (dont know what it is or does), which is required for some reason in order to install lightroom and photoshop (unfortunately), always crashes, and takes down windows 8.1 with it.
I always disable it in startup, and I dont want it to slow down my boot up for zero gain.
Today I realised that windows 8 has no desktop pdf reader.   So I thought I would fire up the adobe creative app thing, to see if there was an option to dowload an adobe desktop product for reading pdf.
When it launched, it said I had to update.  It updated for a bit, then "blue screened" windows.  Not the old blue screen we know and love from windows 3.1 to windows 7, but a new blue screen reserved only for windows 8.  Basically, the updater simply kills all your running apps, no matter if you were in the middle of working on something, and gives a compeetly  blue screen, except I see a small minimised Skype bar in the bottom left.  All my desktop items - gone.  Windows bar at the bottom - gon.  Start menu - gone.  Windows start button on the keyboard?  Dead.
So the only option is to pull the power plug, which can seriously dammage the HD etc.
Nice one Adobe. This is why I hate installing the bug filled bloatware which too many companies fill your machine.
I dont expect any help, but at least I tried to give feedback.

Just to confirm: both, after installing, and after updating the "Adobe Creative App", everything on the desktop disappears, including the desktop background, and you are left with a solid blue screen (very similar to a blue screen of death, just without the error message), and a small window with skype compressed into the smallest possible area (just he minimize button and the word skype) in the bottom left.  I waited at least 5 minutes.  This is on a machine with a new and empty Curcial M550 SSD (very very fast), and a core i7 quad core 2.7GHz.  No key board action has any effect, except Ctrl-Alt-del does eventually allow you to shut down (which I could not find the first time I had this problem so had to litterally pull the power out of the back).
It is a brand new machine with nothing but a fresh install of windows 8 from the Lenovo Factory installation disks, and utilities like skype, chrome, firefox, tortoise git, and java installed. 
I have now uninstalled the creative clound app, as I cant afford to have it damage my laptop or windows installation.

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