2023 Premiere Elements-freezes and cannot close the program without using the task manager

To find your video adapter
Right click the 'window pane' at the bottom left corner
Select Device Manager in the pop up window
Click the > to the left of Display adapters
What do you have?

To find your installed ram
Right click the 'window pane' at the bottom left corner
Select System in the pop up window
What is your installed ram?

I have an off the shelf, pretty good laptop from Costco.  It has no where near the 'power' of John's computer.  Premiere Elements, Photoshop Elements, the Lightrooms, Photoshop, Premiere Pro, Audition and Affter Effects all run well.  

Based on similar questions in the past, what are your settings for Audio Hardware?  (Edit > Preferences > Audio Hardware)  Default Input should be set to No Imput.

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For example... What I have, with ZERO problems (home build)
Cooler Master Gold 850watt power in Rosewill Thor ATX tower case
Windows 11 Pro 64bit version 23H2 Build 22631.2506 (as of 9-26-23)
Premiere Elements 2021 upgraded to version 2021.4
Intel i9-10900k in Motherboard ASUS Prime Z490 P w/Arctic CPU cooler
64Gig TEAMGROUP Ram and GTX 1650 MSI-GeForce-128-Bit-Graphics with 4 Gig video ram
nvidia STUDIO driver version 511.09 (NOT the Gaming driver)
motherboard automatically turned integrated Intel video off when installed GTX
TEAMGROUP 512Gig SSD for Windows and programs and usual MS Office Documents files
Samsung 500Gig SSD Temporary work files and output when creating new video files
W.Digital 1T SSD Video and sound input files from camera and other sources