Refine Tool working slowly and Refine Edge crashes

Hi please help, over the last few days the refine tool is working really slowly and when it has completed the refine edge freezes and I have to control alt delete to end the task. I have tried resetting the tools and also removed Photoshop and re installed Photoshop also changed to basic instead of advanced in preferences and it hasn't made any difference to the action.
Please can anyone advise if there is something really simple that I'm not doing?
It was working perfectly before about a week ago.
Thank you

Nobody can tell you anything without proper system info or other technical details.
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