Photoshop Installer failed to initialize. Help?

Question

Hello adobe! When trying to download a trail of photoshop the installer resulted in the following issue:
Installation Failed
     Your installation encountered errors.
Installer failed to initialize. This could be due to a missing file.
More troubleshooting tips:
1.Restart your computer
2. Exit all applications including startup items, virus checking and firewall software.
3. Launch the installer and reinstall your applications.
     I looked into this issue for probably around 5 hours now and attempted everything possible (or at least any solution I could find). The attempts tried and failed go as follows:
- Disabling all startup processes in msconfig
- Disabling antivirus temporarily
- Using the CCcleaner to produce a log and delete files
- Downloading multiple products from adobe (none working and same error)
     These programs include premeire
- Trying to use the installer on multiple drives (I have 3 total)
- Multiple accounts and directories
     My PC's specs:
-Intel core i7 4770k 3.5GHz
-(ASUS) Nvidia Geforce GTX 760
-8 GB RAM
-Samsung SSD and two other HDDs
My guess as to the cause for the problem is that I have moved my users and program files directories to one of my HDDs.
The log:
Gen_WWCombined-en_US-20121017_1230
[Mon Dec 09 16:36:30 2013] Please enter (y) for Yes or (n) for No. ... >>
[Mon Dec 09 16:36:31 2013] Choose from one of the following options to clean up :
[Mon Dec 09 16:36:31 2013] 1.  All
[Mon Dec 09 16:36:31 2013] 2.  Adobe Flash Player 10.2
[Mon Dec 09 16:36:31 2013] 3.  Creative Cloud & CS6 Products
[Mon Dec 09 16:36:31 2013] 4.  CS6 only
[Mon Dec 09 16:36:31 2013] 5.  CS5-CS5.5-CS6
[Mon Dec 09 16:36:31 2013] 6.  CS5-CS5.5
[Mon Dec 09 16:36:31 2013] 7.  CS3, CS4
[Mon Dec 09 16:36:31 2013] 8.  Adobe Id credentials
[Mon Dec 09 16:36:31 2013] 9.  Quit
[Mon Dec 09 16:36:31 2013] Choice :>
[Mon Dec 09 16:36:33 2013] User selected: All
[Mon Dec 09 16:36:33 2013] DB does not exist at: B:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\caps\pdb.db
[Mon Dec 09 16:36:33 2013] DB does not exist at: B:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\caps\Media_db.db
[Mon Dec 09 16:36:33 2013] DB does not exist at: B:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\caps\caps.db
[Mon Dec 09 16:36:33 2013] List of products installed on this machine
[Mon Dec 09 16:36:33 2013] Listing products for cleanup:
[Mon Dec 09 16:36:33 2013] Please enter the option number of the product you wish to remove; enter (q) to quit ... >>
[Mon Dec 09 16:36:35 2013] Are you sure you want to clean all the listed products and associated files?
[Mon Dec 09 16:36:35 2013] Type (y) to confirm and remove or (n) to quit ... >>
[Mon Dec 09 16:36:37 2013] Please wait for Adobe Creative Cloud Cleaner Tool to finish........
[Mon Dec 09 16:36:37 2013] :: Cleaning-up left over inventories ::
[Mon Dec 09 16:36:37 2013] Atleast one Non-RIBS Inventory : False, Atleast one AAMRef: False
[Mon Dec 09 16:36:37 2013] ::Start:: Removing AUM contents
[Mon Dec 09 16:36:37 2013] Deleting registry root:HKLM key:Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run value:AdobeAAMUpdater-1.0
[Mon Dec 09 16:36:37 2013] Exception during deleting key : (2, 'RegDeleteValue', 'The system cannot find the file specified.')
[Mon Dec 09 16:36:37 2013] Deleting registry root:HKLM key:Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run value:ADOBE_UPDATER_STARTUP_UTILITY
[Mon Dec 09 16:36:37 2013] Exception during deleting key : (2, 'RegDeleteValue', 'The system cannot find the file specified.')
[Mon Dec 09 16:36:37 2013] Deleting scheduled task : AdobeAAMUpdater-1.0-ThirtyVirus-PC-ThirtyVirus
[Mon Dec 09 16:36:37 2013] Executing command: schtasks /delete /TN "AdobeAAMUpdater-1.0-ThirtyVirus-PC-ThirtyVirus" /F
[Mon Dec 09 16:36:37 2013] ERROR: The system cannot find the file specified.
[Mon Dec 09 16:36:37 2013] Deleting scheduled task : AdobeUpdater Task-ThirtyVirus-PC-ThirtyVirus
[Mon Dec 09 16:36:37 2013] Executing command: schtasks /delete /TN "AdobeUpdater Task-ThirtyVirus-PC-ThirtyVirus" /F
[Mon Dec 09 16:36:37 2013] ERROR: The system cannot find the file specified.
[Mon Dec 09 16:36:37 2013] ::Finish:: Removing AUM contents
[Mon Dec 09 16:36:37 2013] ::Start:: Removing OOBE
[Mon Dec 09 16:36:37 2013] Executing command "taskkill /F /FI "IMAGENAME eq AAM Updates Notifier.exe""
[Mon Dec 09 16:36:37 2013] INFO: No tasks running with the specified criteria.
[Mon Dec 09 16:36:37 2013] ::Finish:: Removing OOBE
[Mon Dec 09 16:36:37 2013] Removing content of Product : CS5Installer, Version : CS5
[Mon Dec 09 16:36:37 2013] File does not exist: B:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\caps\pdb.db
[Mon Dec 09 16:36:37 2013] File does not exist: B:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\caps\Media_db.db
[Mon Dec 09 16:36:37 2013] LOG FILE SAVED TO: B:\Users\THIRTY~1\AppData\Local\Temp\Adobe Creative Cloud Cleaner Tool.log
[Mon Dec 09 16:36:37 2013] Adobe Creative Cloud Cleaner Tool completed successfully
[Mon Dec 09 16:36:37 2013]
[Mon Dec 09 16:36:37 2013] *-*-*-*-*-*- ::START:: - SUMMARY OF Warnings -*-*-*-*-*-*
[Mon Dec 09 16:36:33 2013] DB does not exist at: B:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\caps\pdb.db
[Mon Dec 09 16:36:33 2013] DB does not exist at: B:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\caps\Media_db.db
[Mon Dec 09 16:36:33 2013] DB does not exist at: B:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\caps\caps.db
[Mon Dec 09 16:36:37 2013] *-*-*-*-*-*- :: END :: - SUMMARY OF Warnings -*-*-*-*-*-*
[Mon Dec 09 16:36:37 2013] ---------------------------------------------------------
[Mon Dec 09 16:36:37 2013] *=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=* :: End Session :: *=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*
[Mon Dec 09 16:36:37 2013] ---------------------------------------------------------
Anything that you can do? If so thank you! Thanks!

Answer 1

I had a similar problem with installation of CS6 Extended.
I searched all through the forums and the internet, could not find an answer to this issue. On another forum, someone suggested this option for a differnt issue. I tried it for mine and it worked.
Download a newer version of Adobe Application Manager (https://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4773)
Installed the application manager and than install your softwre. CS6 Extended loaded right up.
DDW