photo gallery

i have windows 8.1 , when i open photo gallery i get a popup that says "photo gallery has stopped working " and then my only option is to close the program . This just started 2 days ago . I've tried deleting contents of the windows live folder and the windows photo gallery folder , this did not work . Upon starting PG again , the windows live PG folder contains the same contents i just deleted but the windows PG remain empty .  error code 0x87210003 is the code i sometimes receive when attempting to open PG . the contents that keep appearing in the windows live PG folder are sqmapi , examplars,ed1 , face thumbs.fd1 , pictures.pd6 , pictures.pd6_corrupted .