Photoshop Elements 12 will no longer open

[#1]

Photoshop Elements 12 has stopped working - I am using Windows 7.  I searched the forums and googled and tried all the suggested solutions.  Since it will not open at all, I could not delete my Preferences file by using Shift, Cntrl, Alt so I manually deleted the preferences files (after hours of searching for it) by going to c:/users/(my name)/AppData/Adobe/Adobe PSE 12/prefs but unfortunately, it did not solve the problem.

Another suggested solution was to rename the SLStore and SLCache files to OLD which I also tried and this did not solve the problem.

Does anyone have another suggestion that I can try?  Thank you.

[#2]

Does the Organizer open?

[#3]

Organizer opens but I have to go into the program files and then open it from there.

[#4]

Have you tried using the exe file to open the Editor?  (I assume that is what you are having problems with.)  Can you open a photo in the Editor from the Organizer?

[#5]

Yes, I tried using the exe file (I think it's called application instead of exe) and it did not work either.  I tried getting to Editor from Organizer but couldn't get there.  It's as if Editor has totally disappeared! 

[#6]

All I can suggest is to uninstall/reinstall the program.

[#7]

Greg, I forgot to add in my original message that I uninstalled and re-installed the program also to no avail.  Thanks for your help.  I guess I'm going to have to go cloud-based since I can't seem to resolve this.