Photoshop 12 on my Windows 7 professional PC  crashes/freezes repeatedly,suggestions?

I recently installed Photoshop 12 on my windows 7 professional PC.  It crashes and freezes repeatedly.  It has done it importing photos into the organizer and while using the organizer after importing the photos.
Are there any suggested fixes for this problem?

dhubel
If your program is Photoshop Elements 12, you have posted in the wrong forum. This is the Premiere Elements Forum (video editing focus).
Please repost your question in the Adobe Photoshop Elements Forum or wait for a moderator to spot your thread and move your thread there.
http://forums.adobe.com/community/photoshop_elements
While you are waiting for further developments, you might want to post details of your situation, such as
a. Computer operating system on which your Photoshop Elements 12 is installed?
b. Is the problem just in the Elements Organizer 12 or in the Full Editor or both?
c. Have you deleted the Elements Organizer 12 setting file? One way to do that is to open the program to the Welcome Screen, and, as you hold down the Ctrl+Alt+Shift keys altogether (Windows), left mouse click the Organizer tab and hold the click for about 15 seconds, and then release the mouse click. When the pop appears asking your permission to delete the settings file, click Yes and then release the Ctrl+Alt+Shift keys. OR check out
http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop-elements/kb/preference-file-locations-photoshop-elements. html
d. Have you tried to create a new catalog?
e. How many, what size, what format Photos imported into the Organizer involved in the crashes?
f. Are you working with a catalog converted from an earlier version? How many images are imported
into the Elements Organizer 12 at this time?
ATR

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