photoshop starts as background process

Question

Until yesterday, Photoshop has been working fine. Today, it appears not to start, but it is actually starting as a background process and I can't access any of it. I've read the forums and tried:

-updating graphics card drivers

-disabling graphics cards

-uninstalling and reinstalling photoshop

-uninstalling and reinstalling all Adobe apps (except creative cloud)

-did a "repair" installation of Adobe Creative Cloud

-moved the settings folder and let photoshop create a new one

None of these worked. I'm running Windows 10 on an Alienware laptop with a Nvidia graphics card. Like I said, everything worked fine until this morning. All drivers up to date. Windows up to date. Running Photoshop 22.2

If it makes a difference, Illustrator and Acrobat work fine.

Please help! I couldn't get any work done today at all.

Thank you.

MarekMularczyk · Accepted Answer

I know this isn't an ideal solution but since it's been working in the past, have you tried downgrading Photoshop to previous version?

MarekMularczyk · Answer

It's a very common glitch with Photoshop on Windows that I've seen happening for many years.

What seems to have always worked for me is to:

open Task Manager,
End Photoshop process,
keep Task Manager open and start Photoshop again

This has always worked for me.

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