Acrobat will not Activate. Ever, Ever? Ever.

STILL HAVING issues with Acrobat closing for no reason after about 8 seconds, also when converting to PDF in Word 2013 I get error statement that Acrobat is not activated. Also keep having to delete the OBEE folder every day to use CC. Ridiculous!!!!! Well known and well documented through out these forums. FIX IT ADOBE!
I spent 2 hours on the phone with Adobe "no speak english" support and no solution.
Im running Windows 7 with CC subscription.
Steps I have followed from Adobe that do not work:
First Try on support call:
Signout of CC
Delete OBEE
Delete Local and LowLocal Acrobat pref folders
Restart system
Opn PS CC and follow steps to activate/signin
Open Acrobat and see if it works. It does not.
Second try on support call:
Remove all of the CC apps
Run CC cleaner on all apps
Restart System
Install all CC apps
Open Acrobat and see if it works. It does not.
Third try on support call:
Delete Windows 7 user Admin account and create a new one
Go through all the steps above from second support try
Im thinking the only way to fix this well known and well documented problem is to start posting links to alternative PDF software solutions and maybe drop my companies 20 CC licenses and ALl of the Acrobat licenses

"Note: The information below is based on the Classic version of Windows XP."
I'm on a Windows 7 machine, tried the XP solution you suggested. No change, Acrobat still closes and not activating. I did not have acrobat previous to CC subription. I did have IT completely gut my PC and reloaded the entire machine today, loaded CC, installed the apps, opend PS and accepted the agreement, opend Acrobat and it closes within 8 seconds so same B.S.
I am going on 4 months of this problem, usually Adobe can get it figured out, but after a quick search on these forums you can see its clearly a problem that has been ignored.
And this doesnt help me convince my company that we should stay with Adobe products. http://www.pcworld.com/article/2027946/researchers-zero-day-pdf-exploit-affects-adobe-read er-11-earlier-versions.html
If anyone else has falling into the Acrobat BLACKHOLE here are some ADOBE ACROBAT ALTERNATIVES: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2096946/5-cheaper-alternatives-to-acrobat-for-pdf-editing.h tml

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