Acrobat X Pro | Will not launch

Moved to a new laptop.
Deactivated Acrobat X Pro on old laptop
Reinstalled Acrobat X Pro (with Sr # - not trial version)
Installs OK. PDF Printer installed and works.
But Acrobat will not launch, after the initial 'splash' screen.
No error messages.
Same with Distiller.
PDF documents open with Reader only
Windows 7 - 64 bit - Same as on old laptop. Worked perfectly well on old laptop.

Update:
Had a support ticket set up and got a call back pretty quick from the Adobe Support Team.
Unintalled Reader X - to avoid possible conflict with X Pro.
Deleted cache and pcd files from CommonFiles/Adobe PCD
Logged out of domain user profile
Logged in as a local user
Acrobat lauched, connected with Adobe, and worked ok.
Logged out as local user and logged in again as normal user.
Acrobat X Pro lauched and works fine.
Thank you for the quick resolution.

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