How to stop "Loading Plans and Pricing" window on Photoshop [22.5.9] startup?

[steveisa054]

I hope this is the correct category to post this question. About a month ago I had this problem every time I started up Photoshop Classic on my Windows 10 PC. Then the problem went away. And now today it has started again. I hope someone can explain to me what I can do to prevent this from happening.

The problem: When I start up Photoshop Classic on my Windows 10 PC, as part of the starting up, a blank white window appears on the screen. There is a flash of text saying something like "Loading Plans and Prices", and then this disappears, leaving the blank white window. Nothing more happens. The window never gets loaded, no matter how long I leave it be. I can only get the Photoshop startup to proceed so that I can use it by closing this window using the X in the upper right corner.

This is not a show stopper problem. Everything seems ok after I close down this non-loading window. But it is annoying, because it is a manual step that I have to do every time. And due to other current problems with ram utilization, I am closing and restarting Photoshop very often.

Thank you for any help!

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[jane-e]

@steveisa054 

What do you mean by "Photoshop Classic"? Adobe has never had an app with that name. Can you give us the exact version and number so we can better assist? Go to Help > System Info > Copy, then paste the entire contents into a Reply window in this thread.

Jane

[steveisa054]

Well, maybe I am not really aware of the name that is given to Photoshop these days. It is the subscription version. I do not have the most up to date version of Photoshop running, due to limitations of my current PC hardware. Here is the information:

Adobe Photoshop Version: 22.5.9 20220729.r.1101 1437252 x64
Number of Launches: 1568
Operating System: Windows 10 64-bit
Version: 10 or greater 10.0.19041.3636
System architecture: Intel CPU Family:6, Model:10, Stepping:9 with MMX, SSE Integer, SSE FP, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX
Physical processor count: 4
Processor speed: 3400 MHz
Built-in memory: 32716 MB
Free memory: 20972 MB
Memory available to Photoshop: 25149 MB
Memory used by Photoshop: 70 %
SAM SDK Version: 2.0.0-main.779.1
ACP.local Status:
- SDK Version: 1.48.0
- Core Sync Status: Reachable and compatible
- Core Sync Running: 7.0.0.9
- Min Core Sync Required: 4.3.28.24
Live Edit Client SDK Version: 3.82.01
Manta Canvas: Enabled.
Alias Layers: Disabled.
Modifier Palette: Enabled.
Highbeam: Enabled.
Pentablet
Spec Version 1.1
Impl Version 1.0
Num Devices 1
Image tile size: 1024K
Image cache levels: 4
Font Preview: Medium
TextComposer: Latin

[Ged_Traynor]

@steveisa054 "due to limitations of my current PC hardware" with them system specs your PC is well capable of running the most recent version of Photoshop

[steveisa054]

Thanks for that tip. I have just been afraid of going to the more AI intense version of Photoshop for fear of things suddenly not working. I should mention, the GPU I have now is relatively new, and I only had the GTX 1660 with 6 GB ram previously. After installing the RTX 3060 with 12 GB ram, all sorts of memory utilization issues (with Lightroom I believe) started to happen, and so I am assuming that going to the AI intense Photoshop version will just not make that situation any better. I have all the parts minus the new ram for a new PC sitting here at my feet waiting to get put together, so I am waiting until the new PC is up and running before upgrading Photoshop.

[Ged_Traynor · Accepted solution]

@steveisa054 if you have Photoshop via an Adobe Creative Cloud subscription, your issue may be related to this

https://helpx.adobe.com/ie/creative-cloud/kb/fix-blank-white-screen-sign-in.html

[steveisa054]

I have Photoshop and Lightroom combined via the Lightroom subscription. I do not use any cloud features, am not syncing to the cloud, for example (I have sync to cloud turned off). So I am actually not aware of what is meant exactly by the "Creative Cloud" subscription. I have the monthly subscription for Lightroom and Photoshop (ok, I think it gives me Bridge as well but I never us it). 

[Ged_Traynor]

It's just an Adobe thing, what you have is an Adobe Creative Cloud subscription, which includes Photoshop, Lightroom, Bridge and Camera Raw along with other features, it has nothing really to do with the cloud!

Anyway did you check out the link I posted above?

[jane-e]

@steveisa054 

Note the first line in Ged's link:

"Getting a blank white screen for your Creative Cloud app (such as Photoshop, Illustrator, and Lightroom) after sign-in? Learn how to fix this issue."

Photoshop is a Creative Cloud app whether or not you use the Cloud features. Many of us don't. Go ahead and follow the steps.

EDIT: 21 seconds after Ged 😊

Jane

[steveisa054]

Thanks, I will give it a go soon. The first step in the link should not apply, as I only use my subscription from a single PC, so I should not be signed on in more than one (or two) places. But let us see ...

[Ged_Traynor]

@jane-e well you did have to write more than me 😁

[steveisa054]

I have tried the first step on the link provided by Ged_Traynor but it has not helped. It is also a bit confusing. I follow all the steps, log out of the Creative Cloud Desktop app, log in again, and then when I try to start up Photoshop, I still get the blank white window. When I look at this site again, account.adobe.com/security, it shows me now, as it showed me before I tried anything, that I have three active sessions. These I show below (sorry it is in Danish). So, ok, I have three active sessions, and is this the reason why I am getting the white screen? But I cannot get rid of these, apparently.

[Ged_Traynor]

@steveisa054 I currently have 5 active sessions showing in my account so that's not an issue, did you try these steps from the above link

Solution 2: Remove Adobe Intermediate CA and Adobe Content certificates
Solution 3: Remove Adobe User and Adobe App certificates

[steveisa054]

I haven't tried these yet, because it sounds from the site as if I need these certificates to be able to log in and use the Adobe apps. If I remove these, do they become automatically replaced?

[Ged_Traynor]

Just to put you at ease, I deleted the certificates and signed back into the CC app and yes the certs are recreated

[steveisa054]

Perhaps one thing might help the situation. I am always annoyed by the huge amount of processes that are always running in the background of my Windows 10 machine. literally hundreds of processes which take up small amounts of RAM, but due to the huge number of these, a great chunk of my 32 GB CPU ram is utilized by these. Because of that, I occasionally try to keep what I think might not be necessary processes and apps from starting up (e.g. I never telephone from my PC so I do not need a Microsoft process for that running). Along the way, I might have shut down some auto startups of some Adobe processes and softwares, and maybe this is what is causing the popping up of this white window when I start Photoshop? It is only with Photoshop, not with Lightroom. If anyone can say what Adobe apps should be running when I try to use my Creative Cloud subscription of Lightroom and Photoshop, maybe this could fix the issue.

[Ged_Traynor]

@steveisa054 "I am always annoyed by the huge amount of processes that are always running in the background of my Windows 10 machine. literally hundreds of processes which take up small amounts of RAM"

Not sure why running processes would annoy anybody, I've never felt concerned about that, with the OS and Firefox running on my system there's only about 6.7 GB of RAM in use which is quite normal, average running processes range from 1.0 MB to about 200 MB, you're not really going to benefit much by shutting down processes that use very little RAM

Did you actually try solutions 2 and 3 from the link I posted

[steveisa054]

Well, I am seeing about 7 GB RAM being used by everything not including Firefox and my photography apps. If this is normal, and what should be expected, then I cannot imagine being able to do much work in photo editing without a minimum of 32 GB RAM. Maybe I am wrong, but I was under the impression that there are many out there who are still using setups with only 16 GB RAM.

[steveisa054]

Strangely enough, just like the first time I had this problem, the problem with the blank white window on Photoshop startup has gone away yesterday in the late afternoon. I had been getting the blank window all day before this time. Then suddenly the problem disappeared. I have not done anything in the meantime, I attempted no fixes of the problem. A guess would be that there is some kind of Photoshop campaign which runs for a time, and my personal setup is getting caught up in it. Anyway, problem is now gone, at least for the while.