Windows 11 Bridge is suddenly opening everything in Lightroom WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY???????

I went to the file extensions manager and I do not have the option to select photoshop from the dropdown menu. I am confronted with a "browse" option which basicallly opens up file explorer. I CANNOT FIND PHOTOSHOP IN THE ADOBE FOLDER.

It is installed [version 22.2] SO WHERE THE HELL IS IT?????????????????

However, I should not have to root around the programs file. It should be available as a menu item so I do not have to do this. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling.

If the problem is that it does not work with my old photoshop why give us the option to roll back. And why upgrade bridge so it can just come along and wreck everything for the umpteenth time.

I should mention that I have adobe running on two machines. My desktop has the latest stuff and it tends to work there on a Nvideo 3080 graphics card (although I have not tried Bridge to see if it is opening in Lightroom). However, running the latest photoshop on the laptop was buggy and freezing and crashing every few minutes and I gave up. Version 22.2 was working for things that are not too resource intensive. And now this.

I am going to try rolling back to an earlier version of Bridge and if that does not work I will just have to throw in the towel.

Why do we have the option to install on two different machines if the settings for one affect the settings on the other. Am I missing something here? Obviously, I am. It's especially galling because when I began using the software, I -- mistakenly -- thought it mioght be a good thing to open in Lightroom from Bridge and I was basically told I was an idiot for thinking that. [They were right, so why are we here now?]