I installed PP6 on my Lenovo Laptap with Win8.1. Worked fine. Turned off computer. Turned back on. Can not open ANY PP6 program. No Adobe app shows as a listed program to uninstall. However, Adobe PP6 files shows in directory search. How do I fix?

Question

How do you uninstall PP6 with win8.1 when it no longer shows up as a program listed with an uninstall options.  PP  worked until I turned off computer and restarted.  All start up links are gone.   I can see where Adobe PP6 files installed when I do a directory search but no .exe start files in those directories work.  I can not uninstall PP6 and try again to re-install.    How do I fix this problem?

Answer 1

Thanks Michael. Apologies for the slow reply I was away for a bit (holiday blitz at work and visiting family madness etc.etc.) back now, I set both options you requested to "never " and retried the CMS software with no change. 
I do have progress of a sort though, as a test I took a separate test PC and put a clean install of Win7 on and loaded up the CMS software (it worked perfectly) and then took the version of ole32.dll off that machine and put it onto the computer I had built
for her (using Linux) and...
got a new error code. Darn I was so sure I had found a clever solution this time lol.
Anyway now when the CMS fails it gives me a similar error but the offending module is "ntdll.dll" sooo... I tried taking the "working" version of ntdll.dll from the test box and moving it over (making sure to back up the existing ones
first so I could put them back if needed) to her new PC and the PC would not boot. 
It seems to want the original versions of a few Dynamic Link Libraries and if I could somehow give it those while not breaking Win7 it should theoretically work seeing as it no longer errors with ole32.dll. 
ntdll.dll however seems necessary for Win7 to boot.
So what I am wondering now is:
Is there some way to have both versions of the DLL file in the system32 folder (bypassing the "cannot have two files with the exact same name in the same folder" thing) or rename the original DLL's something else and somehow make the CMS look for
the new named versions so the system has the updated DLL's it needs to boot/run and the CMS has the old ones it wants to run or is there someway to have a self contained install of the CMS, say on a USB flash drive and give it it's own E:/windows/system32/needed
dll's  path to the files it needs? 
Willing to try any other options or settings you may have come up with as well.
Thanks again for your reply and my apologies for not answering sooner.