Animate 2017 Not Starting

Animate 2017 is not starting, crashing before anything loads for the program.

It is failing in ntdll.dll with no useful error information:

Faulting application name: Animate.exe, version: 16.5.1.104, time stamp: 0x5955a84e

Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 6.1.7601.23864, time stamp: 0x595fa942

Exception code: 0xc000041d

Fault offset: 0x000000000004dc9d

Faulting process id: 0x18b8

Faulting application start time: 0x01d313c1dfe70ed1

Faulting application path: G:\Adobe\Adobe Animate CC 2017\Animate.exe

Faulting module path: C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll

Report Id: 1dc42f31-7fb5-11e7-92a6-005056c00008

I am running Windows 7 Pro ; i7 64bit processor, 32 GB of RAM

Crash happens within a second or two of trying to launch the app. No loading/splash screen or anything shows.

I followed all the steps here with no progress: Troubleshooting tips to fix Animate CC crash on launch or startup