Photoshop 2025 not launching after update to v 26.6

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April 29, 2025
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Hi everyone and first of all I apologise if this is a duplicate post!

As per the title, I updated to Photoshop 2025 version 26.6 yesterday morning, but now it will not launch. I am running Windows 11 pro and from the Task Manager (see attached screenshot) I can see that Photoshop is running as a background process, but that is all I can get. I have tried all options that I can find in previous posts on here, including uninstalling all Adobe apps and then reinstalling them, with no result. And yes I have ended the task in Task Manager each time. I have even tried installing the Photoshop Beta app, but the same thing happens.

If anybody can help, I would be eternally grateful.

Thank you

Clive

Bug

richardb60414725

Inspiring

I had similar issues with BETA after an update. After investigation, I found that if I navigated to the Photoshop folder and launched the EXE from there (NOT the start menu or shortcuts) it would launch ok

kglad

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in the future, to find the best place to post your message, use the list here, https://community.adobe.com/

p.s. i don't think the adobe website, and forums in particular, are easy to navigate, so don't spend a lot of time searching that forum list. do your best and we'll move the post (like this one has already been moved) if it helps you get responses.

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CedubyaAuthor

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Thank you. Nothing in the forums helped, so I resorted to the system restore feature on my PC and that enabled me to re-install all my Adobe apps.

Clive

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