Adobe Bridge CS6 Not Opening

I recently installed the trial version for Photoshop CS6. Prior to this, I have had Photoshop CS2 installed on my computer. Before installing CS6, I uninstalled CS2.
Now, Bridge CS6 will not launch when I click on it. The cursor will show that it's working, but then it will stop and nothing will happen. I did some research and found that this error occurs whenever Bridge CS2 has been previously installed. I tried what was suggested (create an empty folder in C:\Users\[user name]\App Data\Roaming\Adobe\), but that did not work for me from this topic:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/4522770
Also, my OS is Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit).
Can anyone please help?

Do you have CS5 installed? If so Bridge is probably running in the background. Open Task Manager and look in Processes Tab for Bridge.exe and close.

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