Lightroom suddenly won't open for me

i can't get lightroom to open for me all of a sudden.  i've restarted my computer several times. i unistalled the program and reinstalled it. still it will not open.  when i look at my task manager it say's it's running the process but nothing is showing up on my screen.

It would help if you'd describe exactly what happens when you try to load it ....
Sometimes the .plist file gets scrambled and can cause odd program behaviour. You can try renaming com.apple.idvd.plist to something else, for example com.apple.idvd.old. Then try loading idvd again (it will create a new default plist file).  If it loads, then delete the renamed file.

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