Lightroom 5 not responding

For the past month I have had an increasing number of incidents of Lightroom 5.7 not responding as soon as the program opens. As soon as I select an image, or choose Develop or Library or any other command, the (Not Responding) message appears in the title bar and the application freezes. It does not close on its own and I have waited as long as 10 minutes for it to respond before giving up. I have to open the task manager to shut down the program.
When I do open the task manager, sometimes only Lightroom is listed -- with the message it is not responding. Sometimes other items are listed, too: Bezel and Shadow.
Sometimes in the task bar it will indicate more than one window for Lightroom and when I click on the icon for the program, I will see this:
But I am not able to close those windows by clicking on the X next to their names.
I checked the memory being used by the program and it seems high, but I don't know if it higher now than it was a month ago when I wasn't having any problems with the program.
I do not have any other large applications running while this is happening. (In the example above I have Firefox open, but that was an exception -- I was looking up advice on how to fix the problem. I have also tried shutting down Advanced SystemCare 8, but that makes no difference). I have tried it with an external hard drive attached and detached -- no difference. I tried updating the program and it says I have the latest version. I updated Windows this afternoon.
I also attempted to update my graphics card driver, but that caused a number of other issues and I had to restore my computer to a previous restore date.
I am running the 64-bit application on Windows 7 64-bit on a Lenovo E545 laptop. I have 4 MB Ram and the processor is 2.9 Ghz
I have no problems with any other applications, including Photoshop CC. It seems like a memory issue, but why is Lightroom being such a memory hog? Wouldn't Photoshop use more resources?
Your assistance would be greatly appreciated.

I may have just solved my own problem. Right after posting this I googled bezel lightroom and found this: Flickr: Discussing The word 'bezel' appears in the taskbar. in Adobe Lightroom
I changed the setting in the view menu and now everything appears to be working fine. I cannot explain why it stopped working before because I hadn't made any previous changes to the view options.
Still am curious about the memory usage, though.

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OS Name
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium
Version
6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601
Other OS Description
Not Available
OS Manufacturer
Microsoft Corporation
System Name
JOHN-PC
System Manufacturer
Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
System Model
GA-880GA-UD3H
System Type
x64-based PC
Processor
AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1055T Processor, 2800 Mhz, 6 Core(s), 6 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date
Award Software International, Inc. F7, 11/24/2010
SMBIOS Version
2.4
Windows Directory
C:\Windows
System Directory
C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device
\Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale
United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer
Version = "6.1.7601.17514"
User Name
John-PC\John
Time Zone
Eastern Daylight Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM)
16.0 GB
Total Physical Memory
16.0 GB
Available Physical Memory
12.4 GB
Total Virtual Memory
32.0 GB
Available Virtual Memory
28.3 GB
Page File Space
16.0 GB
Page File
C:\pagefile.sys
Video
Adapter Type
AMD Radeon Graphics Processor (0x68D9), Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. compatible
Adapter Description
ATI Radeon HD 5570
Adapter RAM
1.00 GB (1,073,741,824 bytes)
Installed Drivers
aticfx64.dll,aticfx64.dll,aticfx64.dll,aticfx32,aticfx32,aticfx32,atiumd64.dll,atidxx64.dl l,atidxx64.dll,atiumdag,atidxx32,atidxx32,atiumdva,atiumd6a.cap,atitmm64.dll
Driver Version
12.104.0.0

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