Illustrator CS4 won't start in Win 7

The scenario:
- Brand new Win 7 machine; brand new CS4 Web Premium purchase
- All windows updates and Adobe updates performed
- All Adobe products start up fine, Illustrator doesn't; it just hangs; I don't even get the splash screens at all to tell me that it is even attempting to load something. The computer freezes; ctrl+alt+del will freeze as well. The only way to get out of it is to power off the computer with the power button
** This only happens with Illustrator, all other products/apps work fine***
Any ideas? Similar situations? Recommendations?
Thanks,
Mitch

Not a bothersome question but I think it is a problem that has been posted elsewhere on the web.
you can try this as wll.
Quoted from Mylenium in a similar thread.
Check +C:\Users\[You]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator CS4 Settings\+. Delete/ Move the folder to some otehr location and have AI re-create all user settings. If that doesn't help, you may have a permissions problem somewhere.
Might work for you.
there might be a fix on the Microsoft site I believe a patch.

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