Error: "the system cannot find the file specified" (Photoshop CS6, 64bit)

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I've been running "Adobe Creative Suite 6 Production Premium" for years, with Photoshop CS6 64bit, on Windows 7 Hope Premium. Today, in the middle of an editing session, I was suddenly not able to open new images, receiving the error message "the system cannot find the file specified". I closed the program and tried to restart it, but then I got the same message and was unable to open the program altogether.

I have tested the various programs in the suite; The 32bit versions seem to work ok (including Photoshop), whereas there's something wrong with the Bridge CS6 64bit.

I have tried to restart my computer, but no luck. Also, I have tried to figure out what possible processes could have caused this sudden problem, but I can see noe reason.

Any help?

Niso248780536y1z · Answer

If you are familiar with Windows registry, Windows Update changed below registry to 1. Revert back it to "0" it works. Exacrly same thing happened to me. I know its been years and you moved on. I am just writing to help if someone new hits this problem. Took crazy amount of trials to find and fix this

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\SideBySide]
"PreferExternalManifest"=dword:00000000

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