Adobe Photoshop Elements Organizer 12 opens minimized in taskbar

I have a user who uses Adobe Photoshop Elements 12. It has been working fine up until a few weeks ago. Now when goes to open the Organizer, it opens up minimized down in the taskbar. When you hover over it, you can see the thumbnails of the pictures. When you click on the icon on the taskbar, nothing happens. I went to his computer and logged on as myself and was able to open the Organizer with his photos just fine. I looked in the log file, but there wasn't anything in there. I checked Windows Event Viewer, Application logs, no errors for Adobe Photoshop Elements. I renamed the psa.prf file to psa.old, so it could re-create that file. That didn't fix it. His computer is running Windows 8.1 64-bit. No changes were made to his computer between the time Organizer opened just fine and not when it stopped. Any ideas?

Hi,
On my Windows 8.1 system, if I right click on the icon in the task-bar, there isn't a Maximize option. If I hover over the icon and then right click on the thumbnail, I do get the Maximize option.
The other thing to try is to change the auto hide property of the task-bar - that may reveal the organizer.
Brian

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