Adobe Photoshop Element 2020 Freezing

[tosarkki]

Hi! My Photoshop elements 2020 is freezing for 20-30s when pressing some menu button. This happens when I have started the program and opening something from top menus. I have tried usual things like clean install and so on but that doesn't help. Any clues how to get this problem fixed? Thanks in advance...

[Glenn 8675309]

When it has happened to me this is what I looked at, and found:  some random processes were still running even after I closed the program.   I really cleared things up by turning my computer all the way off... and getting a cup of coffee, and turning things back on.   

Sometimes I will have processes from 4 or 5 different versions (pse 2021, 2014, 2022, etc) all running even after I have shut them down.     I have many versions installed just to help people- but do all my work with pse 2023.

On top of that I also have photoshop--- and the enitre suite of Adobe products installed-  so sometimes I have al sorts of crazy things running  at the same time.   

Try the turn off for a couple of minutes things and let me know.