Problems opening Illustrator

I have been trying to start Illustrator for hours and it won't start, it won't open.
Help!

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Community Manager

We understand that encountering technical issues can be frustrating. Would you mind trying to remove and reinstall the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/windows/latest-supported-vc-redist) and checking if it helps?

If not, please follow the steps in this help article (https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/kb/fix-crash-on-launch-issues.html) and let us know your observations. Also, kindly share the crash report using the steps in this article (https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/kb/crash-next-steps.html) and use the same email account as your community account for quick tracking. We appreciate your time and efforts in resolving this issue.

Looking forward to your response.

Thanks,
Anubhav