Digital Editions won't run on Windows10

I recently upgraded to Digital Editions 4.5 but then found that there is an incompatibility between the Kobo Glo, ADE and Kobo Desktop. The solution to this incompatibility is to go back to ADE 3.0. I uninstalled ADE 4.5, restarted my laptop, downloaded and installed ADE 3.0 successfully and now when I run ADE 3.0 I immediately get an error message saying "ADE 3.0 has stopped working. Windows is searching for a solution." and then that message disappears.

Help. I need to get ADE 3.0 running again so that I can access my library books.