Other programs broken once CS5.5 installed

I ran into a strange issue.
I just got a new PC and this issue only started to occur after i installed Adobe Creative Suite 5.5. If i right click a drive letter in explorer it will hang and i will be forced to end task. if i right click a removeable disk that will work, then i can right click c: or d: and it will be ok.
Another thing is if i come to access c: or d: from within Ahead Nero v10 file explorer, Nero will stop responding. These problems started immediately after i installed CS5.5.
I tried to go to MSconfig and disable all startup items and disabled all non microsoft services. Nothing helps.
CS5.5 in itself works just fine and i am experiencing no other problems other than the 2 i mentioned above.
Any ideas?

Not really. That seems rather strange as there really are no Adobe services that could explain it anymore. It was a problem up to CS4 due to that Version Cue stuff, but those days are long gone. Sounds more like a security attempting to protect your system drives because you forgot to turn it off during isntall and it never registered Adobe apps and file types as benigne, hence it is now locking up every time...
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But before we go there or make any assumptions, it's important for
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