Freezing Problem

That's it Bob, Caps, I just wanted to simplify, they look like batteries, and if one is blown, it will cause freeze ups, eventually, the motherboard will be pooched. I had to replace the one in my p.c.
There are no guaranties, which totally sucks.

I'm not a super computer guru like most of you, but could it be from the cache being too full (this does only happen on an image she has worked on for a while)?  Is there a file or command that can be run to clear it?  Maybe that would help.

Travis

Again, I may be up in the night on this, but I think the scratch disk is a Photoshop managed area for use when your RAM has exceeded its capability; the cache is a system managed area (with instructions from PS) to store data and help it be easily and quickly retrieved.

Here are the definitions from Photoshop Elements' help files:

Scratch Disk
Photoshop Elements’ own virtual memory system, which uses any disk drive or drive partition with free space. You can designate scratch disks to be used whenever there is not enough RAM to perform an operation.

Cache File
A file used for virtual memory. The cache file speeds the performance of Photoshop Elements.

Maybe that helps, I don't know.