Elements 7 freezing/non-responding issues

I have been trying to work with Elements 7 and am frustrated with it freezing up when getting into the organizer and only doing one or two "layers" of viewing and editing. I am running Vista and everything is up to date. Memory is 6GB or RAM, and defrag is on schedule. CCleaner helps also. Norton Internet Security is my Antivirus. Other aspects of my computer seem to running fine...only Elements 7 gives the freeze up.
I have tried clicking on Adobe Active File Monitor to manual (made no difference.)
I have tried going into Elements preference, performance and upped the memory usage amount to high level. (still freezes)
I have eliminated other "working" programs from running while I use Elements 7 (doesn't seem to make a difference)
Thanks for any other help or suggestions...
I would love to be able to view and edit my recent bike trip pictures!
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You said "None of my other catalogs or pictures (7100+) showed up until I opened up my organizer the way I always did before this freezing of PSE. I do that by clicking on the blue Organizer box which then shows all my albums created before plus pictures since the last six months."
When you create a new catalog, it would be empty, no matter how you launch Organizer. So, I don't know why you see your photos when launching Organizer this way.
Hangs and Freezes are often due to some third party software. Bu before that, can you try a re-install?
If yes, then after uninstalling the program, restart your system and then install it. That might resolve the issue.
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