Need Help Organizing Actions in PSE 12

I just upgraded from PSE 10 to PSE 12 and am installing my actions, but I can find absolutely no way to organize them. In PSE 10, there is a drop down menu on the effects panel where I have all of my actions separated into types (filters, enhancements, vignettes, etc.) so that I can just click on "vignettes" for example, and see all of my vignette actions. Not only does PSE 12 not appear to have this option (there is no drop down menu at all), but there seems to be no way to move the actions around to organize them once they're installed. I've tried clicking and dragging them, but they won't move. Does anyone know any way to organize or label or rearrange them or something? If not, it's going to be a nightmare looking for each action every time...

In the pse 12 editor, when you to Window>Effects and click on the word Effects, you don't have a drop-down menu as in the screenshot below?
Did you install the same actions as you had in pse 10, which includes the atn, .png and metadata.xml files?
into
C:\ProgramData\Adobe\Photoshop Elements\12.0\Photo Creations
Then delete both the
ThumbDatabase.db3 in C:\ProgramData\Adobe\Photoshop Elements
and
MediaDatabase.db3 in C:\ProgramData\Adobe\Photoshop Elements\12.0\Locale
Then start or restart the pse 12 editor and wait for the effects data base to rebuild, which might take up to 20 minutes?

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