PSE 7 Editors Hang Badly in Windows 7RC x64

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Opened the Editor and created a new file (500x503, 72dpi, 24 bit) and it took about 2.5 to 3 minutes for the image area to show up. PSE7 was totally locked the entire time but did NOT show as Not Responding in Task Manager. Once the image shows up, any changes to the file also take 2.5 to 3 minutes. Very frustrating. Every one of my other applications are running flawlessly in this Win 7 envoronment.
Uninstalled and reinstalled with the same result. Changed out RAM (I have quite a few spares lying around) and still no change. Enabled/disabled SLI which had zero affect. Ran the executables in a variety of comaptibility modes, still with no improvement. Not sure what else to try... maybe PSE 7.0 is not compatible with Windows 7.
I went through much of this forum and couldn't find anything substantive regarding performance problems with Vista x64 and essentially nothing regarding Windows 7RC x64. Any ideas out there?
Thanks in advance,
Doug

Others have reported PSE working with some versions of Windows 7, and many have reported PSE working with Vista 64. And many people have various problems getting PSE to run on Vista 32. So it's entirely possible your problems are not directly related to Windows 7 or 64-bit.
See this FAQ for troubleshooting PSE problems:
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and see this FAQ about PSE and Vista 64:
http://www.johnrellis.com/psedbtool/photoshopelements-6-7-faq.htm#_PSE_and_Vista

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Reinstall of Windows 7 x64 on WD 750 HDD and set up of m-SATA Caching

I am sorry but non of the above have any answers to my question.
A Tech from my OEM ran Disk Part in 12/13 thinking that it was a bad image. Unfortunately now no one can fix the Window 7 x64 install as MBR disk using the UEFI Bios.
I have called Microsoft Answer Desk have a Prem account. And most of the time I am told that the only way to run the install is to use the system in AHCI.
This of course take out the Intel RST and I can not configure the m-SATA and use 64GB as a cashing device.
When I call Intel the gave me a case number but after two days they said that after before I run the OS install to change the BIOS from AHCI to Raid.  Reset the drives from Control I then run the install from the OEM USB.
This is the guide they asked me to use:
1.Set the BIOS from with SATA mode to RAID
2. Install the Windows 7x64 from either the USB which as all Alien software or the Windows DVD
3. If installing from the DVD once Windows Installer comes up go to F6 and install the INf files for the Controller for the in order to load the drive Partitions.
4. Delete all the Partitions and run the Windows Install
    Having the USB to install from I don't need to do the above process.
What no one is telling either from the OEM, Intel, or Microsoft is when I am in the BIO's where do I run the install from. Is it the Legacy cd/dvd or the Legacy USB.
Or do I use the UEFI DVD which clearly spells out the name and type of dvd,blue Ray drive I have.
Or do I use the UEFI USB which again spells out the type of drive it is.
Every time I use the UEF I DVD or UEFI USB the system will install the disks as GPT and this is a major mess.
There is one more option no one is explaining and that is if I install using the Legacy DVD or USB the is another line in the booting section of the BOIS that sets the system as a boot UEFI BIOS.  This can be changed
to a legacy bios and I can still keep the OROM which is the Control I needed for Caching the m-sata.
CAN YOU PLEASE HELP. PLEASE SEND ME AN EMAIL AS TO WHICH PART I HAVE RIGHT AND WHICH PART I NEED TO CHANGE. IF EVERYTHING IS WRONG PLEASE SEND ME INSTUCTIONS AS TO THE CORRECT PROCESS.
I HAVE BEEN WORKING ON THIS SYSTEM FOR SO LONG NIGHT AND DAY. READ EVERYTHING I CAN FIND ON THIS FROM TECHNET TO INTEL AND SERVERAL TECH FORMS NO HAS THE ANSWER AND I HAVE A $3500 UNUSABLE SYSTEM
Thank you so much for letting my post.
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Next go to the Control panel and run from the
The following is my system configuration:
Alienware 17
OS Windows 7 Ultimate x64
Bios is a UEFI Bios that can be set to legacy or UEFI
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4800MQ CPU @ 2.70GHz Intel Haswell Revision 0/6
Intel Chipset version 9.4.2.1017,
Target PDH/Chipset xeon Processor E3-1200 v3 and v4 Intel 8 Series, C220
Intel Lynx Point HM87 v9.4.0.1017
Intel Rapid Storage: ver. 12.9.0.1001
Intel HD Graphics 4600 ver. 15.33.14.64.34.12
NVidia GeForce GTX 780M
Memory: DDR3 1600 MHz SODIMM - size each = 4GB x 4 = 16GB
Ethernet: QUALCOMM Killer e2201 Gigabit NDIS 6.20
Wi-Fi: Broadcom 802.11ac BCM 4352 BT 4.0
Storage Device For OS: WDC WD7500BPKX-75HPJT0 750.1 GB 7200 RPM SATA-600
Storage Device For Accelerated Cache: LITEONIT DMT-80M6M-11 mSATA 80GB SATA-600 TRIM Disabled
DVD Writer: LG Electronics HL-DT-ST DVDRWBD CA40N SCSI CdRom Blu-ray Read Only
System Must Have Supported Software: AlienwareRespawn Ver. 15 for Windows 7
Alienware Autosy = not a much have but nice to keep take of hardware issues and warranty
Alienware Command Center Includes: /Adrenaline Performance Monitoring and /Game Mode Also includes Fusion for Quick and Advanced Power Plan Settings Controls AlienFX with controls
Keyboard color display which can be connected to System State. Events, and
Applications Alienware On Screen Display = Includes EMSC.dll for NT Kern Driver or Embedded System Control for Hardware Properties DSubOSD Supports Display In HDMI
Sincerely, Frances Steele

Due to the Disagreement between a few OEM techs some of them insist that I install as UEFI with GPT and yet other insist I use Legacy. So the problem starts with setting up the BIOs correctly.
When the system was received in Oct 2013 the Boot options began with Windows Fast Boot = Disabled
I had both options at that time of Legacy or UEFI
I must admit I don't remember if OROM was enable or disabled.
I have both options and I can find am unable to clearly define which options is best.
So I have made many phone calls to the OEM requesting help with this set up.
I am certain of at this point is that when they sent me a USB that was for
Windows 7 with out SP1 the system installs and the drives are formatted as MBR. The best part of this USB is that it had the correct Alienware software (AlienAutopy & Alien Respawn) both import
to this type of system.
I am also certain that when I use the USB that Alienware sent me with
Windows 7 SP1 it is clearly installing as GPT using UEFI install. I found and have a copy of the master install script that shows this action. So what I find is that when I use the USB with out any action from
me the system is automatically installed in the way. This USB doesn't have any of my drivers nor did it have Alien Autopy or Alien Respawn.
I got so tired of the back of forth misinformation I have been receiving, that I request that I pay for a 1 TB completely Imaged drive that match my system.
I received it on 4/02/14 along with a the World Wide Tech service came to install it.  My first question to this tech before he even touched the laptop was, do you understand that I had a m-SATA
installed and do you know how to set up the BIOs for this.
His answer was that this was not his job. So I asked him to please wait before he installed the drive and let me call Alienware to confirm that the BIOs was set correctly and what we needed to do in order for the Operating
System to be installed correctly.
His answer was that he didn't have time. I had to let him do his job and install the drive.
So I did.  Right after the install I new something was not right so I began copying every file I could find that contained drivers, Sysprep, all logs the complete System 32 Windows files and SysWOW Files.
After the first reboot I found that Alienware Respawn was not installed. So because I knew were to get it from I downloaded it. After trying to install the software I received and error message that stated that since it could not find a Windows Recovery
Enjoinment that it would not install.
I noticed that the system was formatted with the disks as MBR (I checked this under Device Manager and clicked on the HDD under Properties it showed that is was MBR)
There was a 38MB OEM partition - a 750MB Recovery Partition - and the rest of the drive was for the Operating System.
Because I made a copy of all the logs and files before the reboot I was able to go back and find the under Panther the original I found the Setupact file it is 908 KB and I wish I could sent you an attached copy of it because it has a lot of information
that would help in how the drive was installed.
Remember I told you that the Tech only allowed me to make sure that OROM was enable and that SATA was set to RAID so I was unable to set the boot to Legacy or UEFI. So from this file as you will see there are a number
of errors it would seem that that the drive was installed as UEFI. (Although everything I have read on the subject states that a UEFI install automatically formats a disk to GPT) So this is why I am so very confused.
Because I can not attach the file here and am going to copy and past some of the items that give me this impression:
2014-04-02 16:56:23, Info       [0x0601c1] IBS    InstallWindows:Install Path = C:\Windows\system32\oobe
2014-04-02 16:56:23, Info       [0x0601c2] IBS    InstallWindows:Setup Phase = 4
2014-04-02 16:56:23, Info                         [setup.exe] OrchestrateUpdateImageState: Updating image state from [IMAGE_STATE_GENERALIZE_RESEAL_TO_OOBE]
--> [IMAGE_STATE_UNDEPLOYABLE]
2014-04-02 16:56:23, Info       [0x0601ee] IBS CreateSetupBlackboard:Successfully created/opened Setup black board path is [C:\Windows\Panther\SetupInfo]
2014-04-02 16:56:23, Info                  IBS    InstallWindows:No UI language from a previous boot was found on the blackboard. Using selected language [].
2014-04-02 16:56:23, Info                  IBS    InstallWindows:Setup architecture is [x64]
2014-04-02 16:56:23, Info       [0x0601d5] IBS    InstallWindows:Starting with Empty Queue. Setup Phase = 4 callBack_DiagnosticDataGeneration: Setup was started from Phase 4. Disabling Diagnostics [DiagnosticDataGeneration]
in this scenario
2014-04-02 16:56:23, Info       [0x060258] IBS    GenerateName: Failed to read the Key UserData\FullName\Value from Blackboard defaulting to WIN
2014-04-02 16:56:23, Info       [0x060259] IBS
GenerateName: Failed to read the Key UserData\OrgName\Value from Blackboard
2014-04-02 16:56:23, Info       [0x06025d] IBS
list of function drivers from the critical device database (CDDB).
2014-04-02 16:56:24, Info                  SYSPRP Waiting for thread to exit...
2014-04-02 16:56:24, Info                  SYSPRP Status: Total = 0, Complete = 0, Progress = 0% (0%)
2014-04-02 16:56:24, Warning               SYSPRP Installation was supposedly active, but status key doesn't exist?
2014-04-02 16:56:24, Info                  SYSPRP SPPNP: The device setup class for device ROOT\LEGACY_STORVSC\0000 is 8ecc055d-047f-11d1-a537-0000f8753ed1.
2014-04-02 16:56:24, Info                  SYSPRP SPPNP: Skipping device ROOT\LEGACY_STORVSC\0000 because it belongs to the legacy class.
2014-04-02 16:56:24, Info                  SYSPRP SPPNP: {Retrieving drivers used by device ACPI\PNP0C32\3}
2014-04-02 16:56:24, Info                  SYSPRP SPPNP: No device setup class has been specified for device ACPI\PNP0C32\3. We will not attempt to retrieve the device's class
filter drivers.
2014-04-02 16:56:24, Info                  SYSPRP SPPNP: No function driver specified for device ACPI\PNP0C32\3.
2014-04-02 16:56:24, Info                  SYSPRP SPPNP: No device upper filter drivers are specified for device ACPI\PNP0C32\3
2014-04-02 16:56:24, Info                  SYSPRP SPPNP: No device lower filter drivers are specified for device ACPI\PNP0C32\3
2014-04-02 16:56:24, Info                  SYSPRP SPPNP: {Retrieving drivers used by device ROOT\LEGACY_NTFS\0000}
2014-04-02 16:56:24, Info                  SYSPRP SPPNP: The device setup class for device ROOT\LEGACY_NTFS\0000 is 8ecc055d-047f-11d1-a537-0000f8753ed1.
2014-04-02 16:56:24, Info                  SYSPRP SPPNP: Driver isapnp was retrieved from the CDDB.
2014-04-02 16:56:24, Info                  SYSPRP Re-checking active
Now of course there is so much in the file I have skipped around and just pointed out the parts where I am hoping you will see installing legacy drivers and software were being skipped.
I called Alienware back and requested a level 2 tech I explained the situation and received a new 1 TB imaged hard drive today.
As I explained to the tech on the phone who again was uncertain if the BIOs should be set to UEFI or Legacy. I told him that we should try installing the drive with both USB's another possibility is to use Acronis Universal Restore and reinstall
from the backup that I made of the 1TB drive that is currently in the System now.
My worry (which I am most certain is valid) this that if we just drop the new drive in the system which making sure which BIOs setup is the most appropriate another Windows 7 x64 SP1 Ultimate will be destroyed. Because there is not
way to change the system from GPT to MBR or legacy to UEFI without having to reinstall the OS.
I have to admit that after 7 reinstalls on my own for one system I am really getting pretty sick and tired of working on this laptop. If I had the money I would make the purchase of an Origin PC in a heart beat but that would be $3200 that would match
the specs of this system.
I couldn't see the Recovery Partition so I Installed Acronis True Image 2014 Prem, and Backed up the disk. With this installed I was able to open the 750MB what I found was 1 folder for System 32 that has a folder with the name Recover but I am unable
to access it. was empty, 1 folder with the name Windowsre, in this folder there are 2 files one boot.sid and one winre.wim
I am not sure what you can do with any of this information but honestly any help would be most appreciated. Before Thursday 04/10/14 when I requested the tech who I spoke to today to return my call. At that time I am suppose to test out 3 or 4 difference
ways to install this drive and see if I can not find out what I am supposed to have in place for the BIOs before he helps me install the new 1TB HD. (which is the easy part)>
Sincerely, Frances Steele

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