Ran a Windows 8 Refresh and reinstalled Firefox. Now, it will not start. Error: Your Firefox profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or inaccessible.

I have tried following the steps under Starting the Profile Manager but the error message just pops up:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles#w_starting-the-profile-manager

This is a problem with the profiles.ini file and should be fixed by deleting the profiles.ini file to force Firefox to create a new profiles.ini file and a new default profile.
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/profiles.ini_file
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Recovering_a_missing_profile

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