Photoshop 13 being a hog on Disk Resources and freezing up constantly!! - HELP!

Hi all,
My Photoshop had been freezing up constanly ever since I updated to the latest version at the suggestion of Adobe support help person via telephone.
Now everything is a nightmare!
My System Info:
Adobe Photoshop Version: 13.0.1 (13.0.1.2 20130522.r.24 2013/05/22:21:00:00) x64
Operating System: Windows 7 64-bit
Version: 6.1 Service Pack 1
System architecture: Intel CPU Family:6, Model:10, Stepping:9 with MMX, SSE Integer, SSE FP, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, HyperThreading
Physical processor count: 4
Logical processor count: 8
Processor speed: 3400 MHz
Built-in memory: 32723 MB
Free memory: 5961 MB
Memory available to Photoshop: 29725 MB
Memory used by Photoshop: 75 %
Image tile size: 128K
Image cache levels: 4
OpenGL Drawing: Enabled.
OpenGL Drawing Mode: Advanced
OpenGL Allow Normal Mode: True.
OpenGL Allow Advanced Mode: True.
OpenGL Allow Old GPUs: Not Detected.
Video Card Vendor: ATI Technologies Inc.
Video Card Renderer: AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series
Display: 2
Display Bounds:= top: 0, left: 1920, bottom: 1200, right: 3840
Display: 1
Display Bounds:= top: 0, left: 0, bottom: 1200, right: 1920
Video Card Number: 1
Video Card: AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series
OpenCL Version:
Driver Version: 12.104.0.0
Driver Date: 20130328000000.000000-000
Video Card Driver: aticfx64.dll,aticfx64.dll,aticfx64.dll,aticfx32,aticfx32,aticfx32,atiumd64.dll,atidxx64.d ll,atidxx64.dll,atiumdag,atidxx32,atidxx32,atiumdva,atiumd6a.cap,atitmm64.dll
Video Mode: 1920 x 1200 x 4294967296 colors
Video Card Caption: AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series
Video Card Memory: 2048 MB
Video Rect Texture Size: 16384
Serial number: 90148858571767641319
Application folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS6 (64 Bit)\
Temporary file path: C:\Users\mcarty\AppData\Local\Temp\
Photoshop scratch has async I/O enabled
Scratch volume(s):
E:\, 931.5G, 789.0G free
Required Plug-ins folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS6 (64 Bit)\Required\
Primary Plug-ins folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS6 (64 Bit)\Plug-ins\
Additional Plug-ins folder: not set
This is what happens when I try to move a layer group.
Screenshot of my Resource Monitor:
PLEASE HELP!!!!
Thanks.

No upgrades except for CS6.
I actually have a separate scratch disk files which is 800GB
So far:
- I cleared my font cache
- Cleared my Preference (Shift+Ctrl+Alt right before restarting)
- Scan fonts for any corrupt ones
- Ran sfc/ scannow on the command line to check for any corrupted files
- Increased RAM from 16GB to 32GB
- Have a dedicated scratch disk drive of 800GB
Yet, the Disk seem to hogging every last bit with Photoshop and crashes while doing simple layer tasks.
I really do need a solution for this!
Thanks!

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