Question about InDesign

Hello Adobe Creative Cloud,
           I have recently purchased Adobe Creative Cloud, and I'm having issues with the Indesign CC program. I need to use it for college, and I can't open it. I have it downloaded onto my laptop, and its folder and files are all present, but I can't open it. When I go to my programs list on Windows, all of my other programs (Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver etc.) are there except for InDesign. I've tried opening InDesign projects my my laptop, but it won't allow me. I really want to pin it to my taskbar and be able to use it, but I can't. Can you please tell me how to open and use it?
                   Thanks,
                        Tia Caffee

I have Windows 8, and I haven't seen any error messages, and I still don't know how to open it from my C Drive.
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 04:14:19 -0700
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What is your operating system?
What, if any, are the error messages? (Screen shots of error messages preferable.)
You open it like any other programme, locate it on your hard drive and click the application programme file.
As you said that you want to pin it to the Taskbar - I assume you have Windows.
This is for Windows 7 http://windows.microsoft.com/en-ie/windows7/pin-a-program-to-the-taskb ar
But you can look up your Own Operating system version and follow the instructions.
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