Photoshop 2024 will Not OPEN!

PLEASE NOTE - this is a 2022 thread unrelated to August 2024 issue. This thread is now locked.

Actually, I've been using Photoshop Beta for a long time, but suddenly it stopped opening. I tried every way, I couldn't fix it, and it's not something I understand very well. Now I downloaded Photoshop, which is not Beta, but it opens 20-25 minutes after I click on it. I can't understand why, other programs are fine.

Thought I'd add this if it's helpful... 2024 PS seems to be an issue for lots of folks right now and in addition to not opening, you can get it open with "Run as administrator" but then you can't drag and drop anything into it which for me is far more efficient than going to the menu to "Place Embedded". So instead of losing more hours to another Adobe hiccup, I decided to go ahead and install the new Beta version which also includes Generative AI and it opened just fine and drag and drop is not an issue. With 2024, I did try all of the many suggestions (like reinstall, reboot, turning off the graphics card and about 7 other options) and not a single thing worked other than running it as an admin. So if you don't care about drag and drop, that will at least get you up and running on 2024. But even running as an admin seems to not work for some so hopefully they get this resolved and issue another update fix SOON.

Same here. First it was Adobe Acrobat and they could never get that fixed and now it's Photoshop. It does open on mine as an admin but appears to be useless since I can't drag and drop image files into my design projects as an administrator. And considering Adobe remoted into my computer 3 times to fix Adobe Acrobat and only provided a bunch of lame fixes and never fixed it (haven't been able to use Acrobat in over 6 months), I dread that this ordeal with PS is not going to be much different. I've tried everything you've tried and I really don't want to spend hours with Adobe remoting in again just to have no solid fix, yet again. I'm at a loss and now my business is suffering yet a second time due to Adobe not having their act together. They should already be here with an answer but nope.

I can't launch Adobe Photoshop after updating, it gets stuck at Open screen.
reading brushed

I am having trouble using Photoshop Beta.  I have been using it for a long while without any problem, but when I tried to start it today, it stalled at the "Reading Brushes" and exited due to an error.

I tried removing it ad reinstalling and rebooting my machine, but all to no avail.

Has anyone else experienced this, and/or know a solution?

Thanks in advance.

Same problem here... no good solution but to restart the computer before launching PS 2024

UPDATE: So it seems it does eventually start...after several minutes. And I can't seem to find WIA running on my machine, so...what now? This is ridiculous, Adobe!

I'm having this issue over the last couple days too!

I tried everything WIl332 has tried - rebooting, uninstalling/reinstalling, run as Administrator, etc. Nothing works; it only runs in the Task Manager.

Photoshop 2024 on Windows 11 22H2

Help, please!

I'm having this same exact issue as of a couple days ago. It only shows up in the Task Manager.

Windows 11 22H2

Photoshop 2024 - I've tried everything the OP has tried, reinstalling, run as Administrator, etc. etc...PLEASE help!