How to get rid of extra background palette

[Porcelain.Street]

Hi, I am wondering how to get rid of this extra background palette that opens every time I open a photo and then I have to close it out each time. I don't see what the purpose is of this palette but it's annoying. Thanks. 

[Semaphoric]

Go to Edit > Preferences > General, and in the Options section, un-check the Auto Show the Home Screen box.

[Porcelain.Street]

Thank you. But that is un-checked. 

[Semaphoric]

Okay, this seems to work: with the box un-checked, reset the current Workspace, or load a different one.

[Porcelain.Street]

Thanks. I don't know how to reset the current workspace but I'll look around. Or how to reload a different one. Thanks for replying. 

[Semaphoric]

Look in Window > Workspace.

[Porcelain.Street]

Ok thanks again! Appreciate the replies.

[Trevor.Dennis]

You can at least get rid of the thumbnails by going File > Open Recent > Clear Recent File List

I find them suoer useful, and losing them is easily the worst part of having to reset Preferences.

[Stephen Marsh]

You can at least get rid of the thumbnails by going File > Open Recent > Clear Recent File List

I find them suoer useful, and losing them is easily the worst part of having to reset Preferences.

By @Trevor.Dennis

Another "middle groud" option is not to populate the recent list, but still make use of storing links to opened files by using my "Photoshop Session Manager" script:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-discussions/scripts-to-save-amp-restore-photoshop...

[Trevor.Dennis]

Whilst I do like the Recent Files list, it occurs to me just how much I use Bridge.  You can drag your current project folder into the Favourite area, and sort its contents by Date Modified, which is much more controlable and flexible than Recent Files.  You can arrange thumbs manually, and batch rename keeping that order.  I have a workshop this week, and started the prep by opening Powerpoint.  Before making a single slide I thought, 'what the heck am I doing?  It was way better to use Bridge together with Photoshop.  Have layered demo images with much control over how they looked, and reveal a layer at a time while demonstrating the point of each image/layer. Tab the UI on and off to make the most of limited screen space.  I have gone from hating using a laptop for Photoshop, to realising that it is entirely doable. Essspecially with todays high pixel density screens.  

[Stephen Marsh]

@Trevor.Dennis Full circle! What started life as an embedded file browser in Photoshop...