Steps to install Creative Cloud 1: Sign in to the Adobe website2: Click 'install' on the Creative Cloud app3: Creative Cloud downloads, the app directs you back to the webpage because you need to be signed in4: You're already signed in, so you go right back to the app now even though you didn't do anything5: The app lets you proceed now, despite step 46: Install fails because you're missing a couple of .dll files. On a brand new factory-stock computer. The installer offers no instruction or advice on how to find these .dll files7: Start googling. Eventually find a random forum post that identifies these .dll files from a particluar version of the microsoft c++ distributable. Adobe needs that particular version and for some reason will not accept the newer versions of the same .dll files, so you download and install the legacy files8: Re-launch the installer and hope for the best. It downloads a bunch of data, tries to install, then fails for unknown reasons because there are no useful error messages. You get the opti