O’Reilley Digital Media have published a great guide to getting the best performance out of Photoshop Elements 3.

“Nobody is neutral about Adobe’s decision to include the Organizer as part of Elements 3. It has some wonderful features, but if you already use another program for organizing your photos, or if you just want to be disorganized, you may find it vexing as all getout to have to use the Organizer. The good news is that while you can’t install Elements without the Organizer, you can hide it from Elements if you really want to, and run an Editor-only version of Elements.”

Website: O’Reilley Digital Media - Revving Up Photoshop Elements 3 for Windows