Ctrl+Shift+Alt+E stopped working in Photoshop cc after I re-installed PC

Hello,

I was using Ctrl+Shift+Alt+E in Photoshop cc 2022 and earlier every day to create a combined layer without deleting the layers below. This command was part of many of my actions and they all worked.

Yesterday I re-installed my PC (reset to factory settings), installed Photoshop again, loaded my actions (did nothing else apart from installing Photoshop and loading actions, apart from that I just saved a new workspace but without keyboard shortcuts) and found out that some of the actions are now not working because Ctrl+Shift+Alt+E creates an empty layer with no data instead of a merged layer.

- Ctrl+Shift+Alt+E does not work (creates an empty layer) whether it is used separately (never works) or in some actions. Strangely enough, there are some other actions that contain this command as well and they still work.

- When using Ctrl+Shift+Alt+E separately, no matter whether I select the upper layer or all layers before pressing Ctrl+Shift+Alt+E - the result is always the same - new empty layer.

- No matter in which order or on which side of the keyboard i press the Ctrl, Shift and Alt buttons, the result is always the same - new empty layer. (Just saying because I saw advice of this kind.)

- I've read somebody's advice from 2019 to "Choose Edit > Preferences > Performance (Windows) or Photoshop > Preferences > Performance (macOS). Select Legacy Compositing." There is no such thing as "Select Legacy Compositing" in Preferences - Performance in Photoshop 2022. There is just "multithreaded compositing", which is selected by default, but whether this option is selected or not, the result is the same - new empty layer.

- I'm trying to merge visible layers, of course.

- The shortcut for Layer - Merge visible in my Photoshop is the standard Shift+Ctrl+E.

- (My actions do contain keyboard shortcuts, e.g. Shift+Ctrl+F2, Shift+Ctrl+F4, Shift+Ctrl+F12 (and I've loaded the actions including those shortcuts), but of course nothing to do with something+something+E.)

Thank you.