Why Won't A New Install Of Lightroom 4 Open?

I am running Windows 8 on a 64-bit HP Envy laptop.  The laptop is less than a month old so there are not a lot of programs installed.   I have a 1TB drive, 12GB of memory, and an i7 processor.
I purchased Lightroom 4 today and downloaded and installed it.  There were no issues with any of those steps.  When I open the program, a icon appears on the taskbar at the bottom of the screen, but the program never opens.  When I hover on the icon, a small thumbnail appears.  When I click on the thumbnail, it goes away and nothing happen.  I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the program with the same results. 
I then tried loading the program on a 32-bit desktop and the program loaded and ran as expected.  I was able to start the program, open it and activate the software.
I tried (on the 64-bit laptop) uninstalling and reinstalling and continue having the same issue.
Any suggestions
DocWool

Try to open Lr from the <Start> button >All programs. Lr should be listed there as "Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4.4" (if that is the version you have installed).
When you install a new version of Lr the icons in the taskbar are not replaced. The taskbar is "personalized", i.e. only those icons appear there that you have manually put there.
The icon that you are seeing is most probably for an older version of Lr that does not function any more since you installed the new version.
Delete the icon on the taskbar and replace it with one for your version of Lr. To delete it, right-click it and select <Unpin ...>.
To put the "new" icon on the taskbar, first create a desktop icon and then drag that to the taskbar.

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