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Thats's not the full info. According to this the required System for Acrobat DC Pro, for example, contains Windows 7 and for the question What should I do if I can't upgrade my operating system?this page says If you can't upgrade your operating system right now, you can continue to use the currently installed version of your Creative Cloud apps for compatibility until you can upgrade. Which is now not the case and contrary to your answer.
That would be possible, but actually, the issue seems to not occur each time after a boot - so it looks like it is a random behaviour. And that makes it a lot more difficult to find. Another idea: is it possible that the call of an update process / routine and the included deinstallation of the old version is the root of that behaviour? I'll have an eye on that as soon as the next update will be available.
@HelpingHand : It looks like my assumption wasn't correct. In Safe mode I didn't see this behaviour and after some restarts, the behaviour couldn't be reproduced, at least not by starting and stopping an any application. But I had the behaviour several times. Do you have any ideas, how to determine the driver blocking the *.exe if it occurs again?