Photoshop Elements 12 No Longer Working

Hello, I just bought photoshop the other day and it worked fine upon first using but now it is no longer working! :/ It says: "A problem has occurred that is preventing this program from working correctly". I tried restarting my Windows 8 Notebook PC and running Photoshop as Administrator but it is still not working! Can you please help me? Thank you in advance for all your help!

With both files open, simplest to tile them side by side, you should be able to drag the layer from the source file onto the target file. So long as it shows the 'grasping hand' you can release the mouse and it should add the layer to the target.
So what is happening now on your system? When you drag the layer to the target what icon is shown - 'grasping hand', 'no entry', something else?
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