photoshop won't open any files

Same is happening to me

I was using Photoshop version 24.5 (the newest at the time of writing) and this problem occurred out of nowhere. Rolling back to an older version (24.4.1) fixed this problem for me.

Welcome to the club.  Adobe is nothing but problems anymore.  

I found this on the web maybe it can help.

https://www.remosoftware.com/info/psd-file-not-opening-in-photoshop/amp

This problem occur when your second graphic does not installed correctly or maybe windows does not recognize it and Photoshop try to run with this graphic.

This problem fix just by a simple way!

You should set Integrated Graphic up for running the Adobe Photoshop.

First, close PS and follow theses 5 simple steps:

1. Right click on your desktop --> choose Nvidia/ AMD Control Panel

2. From the left side, choose Manage 3D settings/ 3D Options 

3. From 2 tabs in the center panel, choose Program Settings

4. Then open the Drop-Down list, choose Adobe Photoshop

5. In the 2nd section, choose Integrated Graphics

This post also came up for me when I did a search. I am on Windows 10 Version 21H1 (OS Build 19043.1266). I have older Photoshop CS3. I was suddenly not able to right-click > Open .psd files, create a new file, or browse to open an existing .psd file (or .jpg or .png). Photoshop would open fine but once you attempted to do anything with a file, it would hang (at the spinning circle) then eventually go to "Not Responding" and have to be forced closed through Task Manager. I had tried resetting Prefernces and uninstalling and reinstalling Photoshop.

I suspected it was a Windows update because (1) it had just ran the update before this all started and (2) I also couldn't open Photoscape (the processes would show in Task Manager). I have Affinity Photo and Krita installed as well, and they both opened and functioned fine, but the other software was working fine before the update too. So, I uninstalled update "October 12, 2021—KB5006670 (OS Builds 19041.1288, 19042.1288, and 19043.1288)": https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/october-12-2021-kb5006670-os-builds-19041-1288-19042-1288-and-19043-1288-8902fc49-af79-4b1a-99c4-f74ca886cd95

All back to normal. Sharing in hopes this helps others who may suffer from something similar.

I believe this update was supposed to address "security" so it may have altered a video driver or made some security settings that affected some files (but just my theory).

Exactly the same proplem! Did anything suggested work for you?

if you have a nvdia card download gforce now and install the newest version of the video drivers and it fixed it for me and there was so much wrong with mine aside from what people are saying above the program is so useful if you have a nvdia card anyway so give it a shot and it will likely work

The solution in the link below worked for me. Try it out!

Re: Photoshop CS6 doesn't open any file

Per in another thread:

Dominik Kietla Sep 5, 2017 1:56 AM (in response to JakubSafranek)

Please try this workaround

Under Preferences > General

deactivate option 'Show "Start" workspace when no documents are open'

activate 'Show "Recent files" workspace when opening a file'

activate 'Use legacy "New document" interface'

and restart Photoshop.

It worked for me.