Lightroom 4.2 Win 7 64-bit -have to kill process in Task Manager every time or can't launch

Lightroom 4.2 Win 7 64-bit -have to kill process in Task Manager every time or can't launch Lightroom. This seems like a bug? Any suggestions?

Does sound like a bug. Consider reporting to Adobe:
http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/new
In the mean time, I only have workarounds like start using a batch file.
Something is hanging it up upon exit, but I dont know what. Maybe a device or process/service? - did you try removing non-essentials? Check windows logs?
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Hi,
As I say in the question I don't know what happened but Firefox just stopped operating and then became erratic. So I removed the firefox programme from my computer and reloaded Firefox.
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