How do I speed up Photoshop Elements, I have over 6000 pictures in the catalog?

What can be done to speed up Photoshop Elements. It seems like the larger the number of pictures in the catalog the slower things get. There must be a way to speed things up.

A catalog with 6000 items is really a little one. There are users with catalogs over 100 000 items. My bigger one is 53 000 today without any sign of slowing down.
Since the size of your catalog is not the problem, could you describe for which kind of operation your organizer is slow ? The only procedure which is really dependent on catalog size is the backup : any kind of backup is dependent anyway.
Other factors may be considered, like background tasks for the autoanalyzer, watched folders, face recognition...
Which OS ? Elements version ? Computer specs ? Installed RAM  and disk space ?

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