Home screen won't load in Photoshop 2020 (and I want it back!)

Hello,

This issue started after I had to do a system restore due to a driver problem I had with my usb wifi antenna. I don't know what version I had of photoshop before, but I can tell you that updating to 21.1.2 did not resolve the issue, not was updating the start of the issue.

Everything works other wise, it opens and when the home screen doesn't load I can tap escape and get out of that screen and open / edit / save files like normal. I really was used to seeing the thumbnails of documents I was working on, and I found that home screen feature useful as I switch between documents often. Through all of my searching, all I could find was how to disable the home screen, not how to fix it! Windows 7 user. Thanks to anyone that can help.

EDIT: Sorry I did not reply for so long. I have edited to add screenshots. My preferences currently use the legacy new document interface, because the new one does not work as shown in the images attached.

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