to start lightroom i normally click the shortcut on my desktop.. i had nothing else going except perhaps email, and that would have been minimized. normally lightroom starts, but this time nothing. After several tries and waiting, i got the eggtimer but nothing opened. i tried going to start>all programs to click the icon in that list and nothing... restarted computer and after it booted, clicked the icon again and got the error message, presumably from the first attempt. (sent information to microsoft) i closed that and clicked the icon again and it opened normally. this is an i7 computer and memory etc is no problem, also lots of space but many internal and external drives. there has always been a slight delay accessing the large externals when they are asleep but that shouldn't be affecting the program launch. my program drive is an SSD drive. all data is on another drive.
For the most part almost most all glitches stem from my wacom intuos 3 tablet. lately ive been getting a lot of program freezes. perfect layer freezes, photoshop freezes, lightroom glitches.. the last driver update they had was august 7th.