"Adobe Media Core CS6 has stopped working" error.

Question

I have had Premiere Elements 11, Photoshop Elements and LR 4 installed for over a year on my Windows 7 computer. Over the last couple months, within a few minutes of turning on my computer I get an error that Adobe Media Core CS6 has stopped working. It seems like this might be related to Premiere but I have not been able to find a solution. This occurs even if I have not run any of my installed programs. Any suggestions what is causing this and how to fix it?

Answer 1

I had not saved the detail files earlier today (it appears they disappear on a restart), but did a shutdown/startup a short time ago and had a recurrence again. (Although two subsequent cycles did not generate the error.) I saved the files and the .xml file indicates the parent process was Elements 11 Organizer this time, not LR4.
I had been living with this problem for a while, one of the set of saved error file sets was from 5/1. I don't recall for sure if that was from the first occurrence of the error, but I decided to look for other programs installed just before that time. I see that Adobe Creative Cloud was installed the day before, 4/30. I don't recall how/why that was installed since I don't have any Cloud products. Also installed on 4/30 were three Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable files, which show installation times one minute before the Creative Cloud installation, so I assume they are part of the Cloud installation. The next most recent (before 5/1) installed program was Smith Micro Anime Studio Pro 9.5, which was installed on 4/29.
The firewall settings have not changed. I was in a chat with my ISP when the problem occurred this afternoon, but not during the latest occurrence. I don't recall any updates since 6/24. I believe the error had occurred every time I started my computer before the Firewall changes, but it seems to be more sporadic now.
I will see what else I can come up with tomorrow since it is getting late. I wanted to get this all down before I lost my thoughts.
Update 7/5:
I have more information, but still no solution.
I found this thread Adobe Media Core CS6 has stopped working related to the same error, but it had no solution. The error did not occur when I exited PS Elements or Premiere Elements as it did for that person.
I also found Adobe media core cs6 stopped working......??? and tried the steps to rebuild the Photoshop Elements editor preferences file, but no success.
I had noticed that Adobe Creative Cloud was installed the day before, so I uninstalled it. Error still occurred.
I installed a different firewall (Zone Alarm Free) and disabled Windows Defender, error still occurs.
Uninstalled Anime Studio Pro (that had been installed a couple days before, error still occurred.
I will provide more updates as I try more changes.
Update 7/20:
More things I tried:
Repaired quicktime via control panel, did not fix
Uninstalled quicktime, error did not recur
I noticed that there remained a plug-ins folder in the quicktime folder, so I renamed it.
Reinstalled quicktime from Apple site on 7/12 and the CS6 error has not recurred.
Additional info not directly related to original question, but occurred afterwards.
I don't think it is related, but a few days later started getting a small blank MFC CTxfiHlp window upon windows startup. I haven't resolved that yet, but it is related to my Creative XFi sound card.
I also noted when I reinstalled Anime Studio Pro that the readme contains a warning that 64 bit windows does not support quicktime; that I should use the 32 bit version of their software.
I installed the latest Creative sound card software, but started getting lockups. Still working on this, but the original problem seems to be solved.
The only other thing I can think of is that iTunes software had been installed, but I removed it. It is possible that caused a problem with quicktime??
Anyway, the removal of quicktime (including the Plug Ins) and re-install did resolve my problem.