Last week, my Windows 7 PC started throwing this Creative Cloud.exe error on login: "The program can't start because api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem." However, the file DOES exist in the path C:\Windows\System32. I can click OK on the error dialog and things seem to operate normally. I can start the Creative Cloud desktop app from a shortcut, and it seems to start normally.
I haven't found any solutions searching the Web, so I did in fact, try to remove/reinstall the Creative Cloud desktop app. The message returned said something like I couldn't remove Creative Cloud because there were apps that depended on it.
The same error results when closing Acrobat DC although it's an AcroCEF.exe system error. I don't get an error at any time when using Dreamweaver CC 2015, Photoshop CC 2015, or Illustrator CC 2015.
Any help will be appreciated.
Frank