PSE 7 blue screen just after launch

Windows Vista Home Premium
HP Pavillion m7790y
PSE 7.
plenty of space on the hard discs and plenty of RAM.
PSE 7  worled fine for months until a few days ago.  Now, when I launch 7, the initial welcome screen (chose Organizer, Editor etc) appears for half a second, then the conmpture crashes with a blue screen error message saying that a bad driver was detected that caused the computer to shut down. Here are all the things I have tried - none worked.
I did a deep scan in Safe Mode with my antivirus - results clean
I ran the Winodws utilities to check for errors in memory and hard drive - results clean.
I used the Windows driver updater to update each and every driver - no failures.
I reinstalled PSE 7
I reinstalled my HP printer software
I read the Windows event manager messages about this crash and all that it says is that I have a driver problem.
none of this worked.  So I am stumped.  Any suggestions would be welcomed, thanks.  ps, the only "new" things added have been an HP software update and Windows SP2.

First, welcome to the forums. For future reference, it's best to post in the forum that pertains specifically to your product. For Photoshop Elements, that's here:
http://forums.adobe.com/community/photoshop_elements
What driver is mentioned?  It should be a .SYS or a .DLL file most likely.
Blue screens are exclusively caused by bad drivers, or bad hardware.  You should probably contact HP for support.
I'd vote that it's related to your network hardware, simply because the Welcome screen tries to connect to Photoshop.com stuff, but it really could be anything including bad RAM, video card driver issues, etc.
So, disable/uninstall all of your networking adapters in Device Manager and try starting Elements. If it doesn't crash, then there's the source of your problem, and you should either roll back drivers, or see if HP can help in some other way.
If that fails, update the driver for your graphics hardware.
Failing that, get back to us with more specific information about your hardware.  You can see a lot of hardware info by going to Start, type in "msinfo32" in the search, and then press Enter.

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