Elements 10 won't open a second time

Hi,
I am running on the Windows 7 platform - 64bit system - 4GB Ram - 488GB free disk space.
When I first start up Elements 10 it opens fine. If I close the program and then go back it will not open up a second time from ether the desktop or the exe file in the program file.
If I re-boot, it performs in exactly the same way as above. If I go directly a photo and say open up with Photoshop this works fine.
Has anyone had this problem? if so can you please help.
Regards
Keith

Brett N wrote:
If it's leaving a zombie process, that's not part of the application's programming. It certainly never happens on my computer. Plus, the Welcome screen itself is a separate executable, even if it is itself left open, this will not prevent the Editor or Organizer from launching.
Far be it for me to accuse Adobe of intentionally creating zombies!
However, here on Win7 x64, running in a standard user account, when the Editor or Organizer is launched from the Unwelcome Screen there is often (not always) a zombie process left running.  It can be seen in the Task Manager's "Processes" tab, and killing that process allows the Editor or Organizer to be launched again.
Brett N wrote:
However, if we are encountering an issue here with permissions, it could be a result of launching the Editor/Organizer (by the way is it one, the other, or both?) because the system, for whatever reason, requires hightened permissions that are not granted when one application launches another.
I'll leave it to the product development team to determine whether or not it's a permissions issue.  I use the recommended Best Practices for computing -- only running by logging in as a standard user account.  My opinion is that except for specialized system maintenance software (and installation procedures) no software should require running as an administrator.
Brett N wrote:
But the OP does mention that even launching from the executable, not just the desktop shortcut, exhibits the same behavior.
That is consistent with the effects of the zombie process.
Ken

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