Cannot open Light Room -

I have Lightroom 3 - it was working fine until 3 days ago. I have tried EVERYTHING! uninstalling, installing, deleting some catalogs, etc. I click on Lightroom 3 the Title comes up on my screen reading "Lightroom - Opening Catalog: Red Scarf 8-16-064-2.jpg.lrcat." Then a little box pops up stating that Adobe 64 bit has stopped working. It then advises me that windows is checking the problem. Then nothing happens. Any suggestions?

You'll need to reset your preferences file. See this thread, post #9:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/3671450#3671450

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