creative cloud won't let me install apps

Hi all,

ok so I had to reinstall windows on my computer because I had issues with windows update. But my adobe apps worked perfectly. Now my Windows is up to date but I can't seem to install any app from the desktop creative cloud app, even installing the CC app turned out to be really complicated. Indeed I had the MSCV140.dll problem, which I managed to fix by reintalling the missing files.

Anyways, when I open the CC app I see a spinning wheel in the top right corner over the little cloud icon, and it just won't dissapear. In the beginning (that is before I followed all the relevant instructions I could find in the threads here) it was because the CC app started updating and could never finish it, so when I wanted to install any other app it was in line behind it and never started. After this I came here searching for solutions so I did execute the app in admin mode, I did delete the OOBE files, uninstall and reinstall the CC app (which again did not work for a couple of times before it finally did). When I opened it I was asked to update it, which I did and again it was stuck in spinning wheel mode. So I repeated all of the above steps except that I did not accept the update. I can now launch the installation of other apps BUT they get stuck in the middle or at the very beginning of the process, a blue message pops up telling me it's taking longer than usual and that they're trying to figure it out but nothing happens... the wheel spins and spins and never stops.

I am very lost and can't find anything that would seem to resolve this problem. Any help, ideas or advice would greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Kevin